Chapter 3

Fundamentals of Firewalls

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

images Explain how firewalls work.

images Evaluate firewall solutions.

images Differentiate between packet filtering and stateful packet filtering.

images Differentiate between application gateway and circuit gateway.

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