ZyWALL 10 Internet Security Gateway
!Denies all sessions originating from the WAN (Internet) to the LAN (local network).
Figure 13-5 Stateful Inspection
The previous figure shows the ZyWALL’s default firewall rules in action as well as demonstrates how stateful inspection works. User A can initiate a Telnet session from within the LAN and responses to this request are allowed. However other Telnet traffic initiated from the WAN is blocked.
13.4.1 Stateful Inspection Process
In this example, the following sequence of events occurs when a TCP packet leaves the LAN network through the firewall's WAN interface. The TCP packet is the first in a session, and the packet's application layer protocol is configured for a firewall rule inspection:
1.The packet travels from the firewall's LAN to the WAN.
2.The packet is evaluated against the interface's existing outbound access list, and the packet is permitted (a denied packet would simply be dropped at this point).
3.The packet is inspected by a firewall rule to determine and record information about the state of the packet's connection. This information is recorded in a new state table entry created for the new connection. If there is not a firewall rule for this packet and it is not an attack, then The default action for packets not matching following rules field (see Figure
4.Based on the obtained state information, a firewall rule creates a temporary access list entry that is inserted at the beginning of the WAN interface's inbound extended access list. This temporary access list entry is designed to permit inbound packets of the same connection as the outbound packet just inspected.
5.The outbound packet is forwarded out the interface.
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