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A firewall generally works at layer 3 and 4 of the OSI model. Layer 3 is the Network Layer where IP works and Layer 4 is the Transport Layer, where TCP and UDP function.

Many firewalls today have advanced up the OSI layers and can even understand Layer 7 - the Application Layer.

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