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From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
Subject: Re: Security flaw in Stateful filtering ??????
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:43:31 +0200
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Emmanuel Fleury wrote:

> So, what are the INVALID packets ?????

Packets where it is impossible to identify a session key to use when matching 
reply packets as belonging to the same session. This is mostly malformed 
packets.

I think RST of a non-existing session also classifies as INVALID, but I am not 
sure.. and in reality does not matter much..

Regards
Henrik