Re: question about stateful inspection [7:38163]

2002-03-13 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 7:00 PM -0500 3/13/02, John Green wrote: >another one: > >"firewall provides filtering at the packet, circuit, >and application layer" > >packet level would be filtering based on Source, >Destination IP address. >Application layer filtering would be specific to the >application like ftp or smtp

question about stateful inspection [7:38163]

2002-03-13 Thread John Green
another one: "firewall provides filtering at the packet, circuit, and application layer" packet level would be filtering based on Source, Destination IP address. Application layer filtering would be specific to the application like ftp or smtp where filter rules would examine deeper into the pa