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From: Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
Subject: Re: Security flaw in Stateful filtering ??????
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:48:48 -0700
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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:52:47AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> If their firewall reboots and is running iptables and thus Linux: How
> long will it be down? Which application will actually survive the down-
> time? Does this application really matter?

Even with about 3 or 4 minutes to reboot I rarely lose connections when
I reboot my firewall.

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