Re: Consine FW

[Nimesh Vakharia <nvakhari () clio rad sunysb edu>]

agreed, the proxy's inherent behaviour to establish the connection itself
is why it does not require it to be stateful which is why it castes a
doubt on performance capabilities at high speeds and is less than ideal
for a hosting environment.

 On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 Bill_Royds () pch gc ca wrote:

> An Application proxy firewall does not need stateful inspection. Stateful
> inspection is a method for packet filtering firewalls to carry information
> about TCP and UDP conversations to ensure that they are consistent. An
> application proxy does this inherently so it does not need a state table
> for the conversation.
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> Bill Royds
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> Nimesh Vakharia <nvakhari () clio rad sunysb edu>
> 11/07/01 04:08 PM
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>         To:     firewall-wizards () nfr com
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>         Subject:        [fw-wiz] Cosine FW
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> Hello,
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> We are looking at a bunch of highend firewall and VPN options and  consine
> seems to be an interesting one. But someone told me that currently
> consine does not have a stateful firewall? Is that true. I was told they
> can support packet filtering and applcation proxy only...
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