Firewalls

In this chapter, we will:

  1. Explain why firewalls are used for and properly define this term.
  2. Present the basic functions of a firewall. That is, what activities do we expect a firewall to perform?
  3. Discuss the activity of Packet Filtering and show several examples of filtering rules.
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