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Subject: Re: Cisco software update?
From: Brent Chapman <brent @ mycroft . GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 13:30:40 -0700
To: pace @ usace . mil (Joe Pace)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 31 May 94 13:25:01 PDT

pace @
 usace .
 mil (Joe Pace) writes:

# > Hi, it's me, the paranoid one again.
# > 
# > If memory serves, I believe a Cisco employee had let it be known that
# > Cisco was planning on upgrading their router software to include
# > source port based filtering, and if I rightly recall, this was
# > supposed to happen early this year.
# > 
# > Does anybody have the latest status of this tidbit?  I'm keen to get
# > it installed.
# 
# Yes, it's available -- I think it's 9.1.2, but not sure of the numbers..
# they also have a newer release for Cisco 7000 users that has some nice
# features.
# 
# Joe

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect.  9.1.2 (I think; it was _some_
recent Cisco release) includes filters on inbound interfaces, but NOT
source port filtering.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though; source port filtering is the last
major missing feature in Cisco's packet filtering.


-Brent
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