December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
I assume now that you know what a stateless inspection could mean. In this kind of approach, the connection state is not ready; every packet is considered an individual packet.
Looking at the example of the previous diagram and firewall rule, if it was a stateless firewall, then the destination update server packets would be blocked at the firewall level because there is no explicit IP of update server allowed in the firewall rule list.
If you are wondering, are stateless firewall actually used? The answer is YES, in lots of places.
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