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Apr 10 2008 8:45 PM GMT
by TessaLP
Part of the reason you may have had trouble finding good resources on stateful firewalls is because, as
Firewall.cx founder
Chris Partsenidis mentions, most modern firewalls have a mix of abilities that place them in more than one firewall category.
Typically a stateful firewall knows if a legitimate "conversation" is happening between a particular source and destination. See
this article on WikiPedia for a very good explanation.
If you need to understand the differences between the variety of firewalls out there, SearchNetworking.com's
Introduction to firewall types guide is another good resource.
Firewalls, Network security, Stateful firewalls
Okay, let me start of with i "googled" my question but i didnt really get a good answer. so im going to give it a shot here. can someone please explain to me what is statefull firewalls, and whats the different between statefull and not-statefull firewalls? 
