Re: CPE equipments and stateful filters

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:02:21PM -0500, Fred Baker wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 
> >I am very sorry that the use and abuse of stateful firewalls in  
> >IPv4 world has lead to the unusability of just about any IETF  
> >transport protocol but UDP (Christian already hinted at this).
> 
> gee whiz. I use TCP through my stateful firewall all the time. What  
> is the impediment?

Incoming connections?

This has been said before: if all the world is "clients behind firewalls
connecting to servers in datacenters", IPv6 has failed its mission to 
restore end-to-end connectivity.

Gert Doering
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