Re: Stateful Packet Filters vs. Proxies

[peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)]

> >In general a proxy *will* protect you against attacks that weren't known
>     ^^^^^^^
> Clearly not enough for security ;-)

Geeze man, no it's not 100%. But it's bags better than a filter.

[in the interest of avoiding further digressions on the list, the rest
 of my gratuitous rant about this that and the other thing has been sent
 only to Eric]