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Subject: Re[4]: Ascend pipeline products.
From: Brian Murrell <Brian_Murrell @ bctel . net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:09:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: cmcurtin @ research . megasoft . com
Cc: jeromie @ garrison . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199607301113 . HAA19837 @ goffette . research . megasoft . com>

from the quill of C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin @
 research .
 megasoft .
 com> on
scroll <199607301113 .
 HAA19837 @
 goffette .
 research .
 megasoft .
 com>
> 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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