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Re: Securing port 23

On 8/25/2010 10:36 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
I assume you're talking about the built in packet filter
functionality....while it's true that originally all that a firewall
offered was packet filtering, we've come a longs ways from that.

Can you explain this further? Are you referring to stateful packet inspection? I'd still call that packet filtering, though.

To me, "packet filter" is a type of firewall -- and time has proven it to be superior to the alternative types, IMHO. So why is "packet filter" inaccurate today?


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