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Stateful Packet Inspection
This is called a “stateful” packet inspection because it examines the
contents of the packet to determine the state of the communications;
i.e., it ensures that the stated destination computer has previously
requested the current communication. This is a way of ensuring that
all communications are initiated by the recipient computer and are
taking place only with sources that are known and trusted from
previous interactions. In addition to being more rigorous in their
inspection of packets, stateful inspection firewalls also close off ports
until connection to the specific port is requested.
When particular types of traffic are checked, only the particular type
of traffic initiated from the internal LAN will be allowed. For example,
if the user only selects
FTP Service
in the Stateful Packet Inspection
section, all incoming traffic will be blocked except for FTP
connections initiated from the local LAN.
Stateful Packet Inspection allows you to select different application
types that are using dynamic port numbers. If you wish to use the
Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) to block packets, select
Yes
in the
Enable SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection field and then select the