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All routers provide good hardware firewalls using stateful packet inspection (SPI), but Buffalo routers are excellent in this regard.
Deep packet inspection is a type of computer network packet filtering. Deep packet inspection examines the data part of a package as it passes through an inspection point. Factors such as viruses, spam, and intrusions determine whether the packet passes or needs to be rerouted to a different destination. Sometimes the packet is rerouted for the collection of statistical purposes.
Stateful Inspection. A stateful inspection firewall uses a technique known as stateful packet filtering to keep track of communication channels. This is different when compared to basic firewalls. Once the packet and connection has been sent, a normal firewall will not remember the communication channel, whereas the stateful inspection firewall will. This also proves useful to protect connectionless communication protocols.
Yes it offers the staeful inspection.
Stateful packet inspection
Stateful inspection firewalls monitor the state of active connections and use this information to determine which network packets to allow through the firewall. This is in contrast to static packet filtering where only the headers of packets are checked. Attackers can exploit this property of static filters to sometimes get information through the firewall by doing something like indicating "reply" in the header. Stateful inspection, on the other hand, analyzes packets all the way down to the application layer of the OSI model. Stateful inspection can monitor communications packets over a period of time and examine both incoming and outgoing packets. Outgoing packets that request specific types of incoming packets are tracked and only incoming packets that are proper responses are allowed through the firewall. In a firewall that uses stateful inspection, the network administrator can set the parameters to meet specific needs, for example ports can be closed unless an incoming packet requests connection to a specific port and then only that port is opened. This practice prevents port scanning, a well-known hacking technique.
It will protect your computer from Malicious programs,hackers .since it will keep an eye on each packet that is moving through the network.It will check the header of the packet,if it is reliable it allow the packet to pass. with love swaroop
Deep packet filtering first examines the data part (and possibly also the header) of a packet as it passes an inspection point, searching for protocol non-compliance, viruses, spam, intrusions or predefined criteria to decide if the packet can pass or if it needs to be routed to a different destination, or for the purpose of collecting statistical information. This differs from "stateful packet inspection" (shallow filtering) where only the type of traffic and possibly the source and destination are inspected, not the contents of the traffic.
Stateful packet inspection
Access is permitted only if it is a legitimate response to a request from an internal host.
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What you are describing there sounds like packet inspection, which is normally performed by a firewall, IDS or IPS.