from the quill of C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin @
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scroll <199607301113 .
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> Do the Ascend products allow you to refuse fragmented packets, or to
> defrag them? If not, stateful packet filtering is pretty useless,
> given that a skilled attacker can simply frag the packet so that a
> decision is made on incomplete information (i.e., source/destination
> address, but not source/destination ports...)
Not sure. While I know of the product and what is supposed to do, it
hasn't made it to the top of my processing stack yet. Looking forward to
it though.
b.
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