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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 384 of 611

What can a stateful firewall do that a stateless packet filter cannot without broad permissive rules?

  1. Permit return traffic for sessions it observed starting
  2. Inspect application-layer payloads
  3. Rewrite source addresses
  4. Terminate TLS connections
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Answer: A. Permit return traffic for sessions it observed starting

Tracking connection state means the reply is allowed because the request was, rather than by a standing rule.

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