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What is stateful inspection?

Hi Carlos,

Stateful inspection was invented by Check Point Software Technologies:

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Sincerely,

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I'd recommend googling for information. Trying to capture the nature of stateful inspection in a single sentence isn't going to do it justice. The bottom line is, it's about monitoring the "state" of a connection and associated packets of information rather than just allowing or denying traffic based on rules.

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optikl

Sorry about this concept question, but I don't know what that it means. Can anyone drop a simple answer? Thanks a lot. Carlos

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Carlos Ramón

I tried to see what would show up, and I found several not-so-good descriptions... here are two nice ones:

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The latter is full of marketing BS from CheckPoint, but still nice for understanding how it works.

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Eirik Seim

Of course you are right, google should be the starting point, but meeting all you in a news forum is not so cold as lonely searching the web, mainly when don't have so clear what you're looking for.

Thanks to all for the links provided.

CR.

"> > Sorry about this concept question, but I don't know what that it means.

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Carlos Ramón

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