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How Does A Firewall Work?

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

You may want to read the previous post first to get a handle on what packets are. This article will then make more sense for you.
There are two main types of firewall:

Packet Web Filter
Application Level Gateway

A Packet Web Filter has no knowledge of the existence of sessions. So it deals with each packet individually and [...]

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