On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 02:16 PM, John McDaniel wrote: > > On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Pedro Vera wrote: > >> and the firewall has SPI > > SPI=??? Stateful Packet Inspection. As I understand it, this capability in a firewall lets it allow things like incoming connections relating to, say, an existing FTP connection, that would not normally be allowed through by themselves. I might be over-simplifying it, though (or getting it wrong... ;-) --Justin