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[joshua d boyd]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:52:17AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:44:02PM -0400, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> > What happens, though, when someone finds an exploit for them? At least
> > if you've done it yourself with [*BSD|Linux] you can make what changes
> > you need to. With those products you've got to wait for a vendor patch.
> 
> My unit drops all connections that werent already established by 
> one of the machines on the inside - you cant even ping/traceroute/portscan
> it.  Any exploits would have to come from the "inside" LAN.  

Uhm, excuse me, but weren't you earlier saying that it did port
forwarding?  How does it do that if it drops all incoming connections?

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Joshua D. Boyd
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