* Ted Unangst [2008-06-20 20:50]:
not necessarily only, but that would be the most common use I bet.
In general, you use it when you cannot avoid it, as in, the other
option is to not filter stateful at all since you don't see all of the
packets for the connection.
> The firewall in front of everything still uses normal tracking?
absolutely!
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