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Types of Firewall

This document discusses four main types of firewalls: packet filters, application gateways, circuit-level gateways, and stateful packet inspection. Packet filters inspect each packet based on rules, application gateways work at the application layer to determine which applications are permitted, circuit-level gateways operate at the transport layer but provide little protection, and stateful packet inspection examines packet contents and port status to verify authorized communications.

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Types of Firewall

This document discusses four main types of firewalls: packet filters, application gateways, circuit-level gateways, and stateful packet inspection. Packet filters inspect each packet based on rules, application gateways work at the application layer to determine which applications are permitted, circuit-level gateways operate at the transport layer but provide little protection, and stateful packet inspection examines packet contents and port status to verify authorized communications.

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Types of firewall

By
Sanjeev Kumar Nayak
Meaning
• A firewall is hardware, software, or a
combination of both that is used to
prevent unauthorized programs or
Internet users from accessing a private
network and/or a single computer.
Types of firewall
• Packet filter.
• Application gateway.
• Circuit-level gateway.
• State full Packet Inspection.
Packet Filtering
• Packet filtering
inspects each packet
passing through the
network and accepts
or rejects it based on
user-defined rules.
• A packet filter
firewall works on the
network level of the
Open System
Interconnection
Application Gateway
• The slowest and most unwieldy
firewall is the application level
proxy.
• This type of firewall works on
the application level of the
protocol stack, which enables
it to perform with more
intelligence than a packet
filtering or circuit gateway
firewall.
• Application level proxy type
firewalls are usually utilized
for enterprise firewalls
rather than single home use.
• They determine if a connection to a requested
specific application is permitted such as,
Internet access or Email.
• This allows the user to determine what
application their computers will be used for.
• Also known as proxy servers they not only
screen packets and determine what applications
are permitted to be accessed but also offer
protection from outside sources by hiding
internal computers from external viewing.
Circuit-level Gateway
• Circuit gateway firewalls
work on the transport level
of the protocol stack.
• They are fast and
transparent, but really
provide no protection from
attacks.
• The one great benefit to this
type of firewall is that they
make the LAN behind the
firewall invisible, as
everything coming from
within the firewall appears to
have originated from the
firewall itself.
State-ful Packet
• It is called "State-ful"
because it examines the
contents of the packet
to determine what the
state of the
communication is.
• It ensures that the
stated destination
computer has previously
acknowledged the
communication from the
source computer.
• Stateful Packet Inspection firewalls are
also more rigorous in their packet
inspections.

• Stateful Packet Inspection firewalls also


close off ports until an authorized
connection is requested and
acknowledged by the receiving computer.
Thanking
you

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