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From: Feizhou <feizhou@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: iptables leaking blocked ip addresses.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:36:13 +0800
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> I do see that you've disabled CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK, which is a very 
> odd choice. Connection tracking is the strength of iptables!

You mean weakness.

netfilter's conntrack module sucks in performance and at the same time 
is not fully stateful.

If I wanted a stateful firewall, I would go for a OpenBSD solution.

For filtering to host, netfilter is ok without connection tracking.