Talk:Stateful firewall

What is a "known active connection"?
This sentence: Only packets matching a known active connection are allowed to pass the firewall. I get the feeling this means something specific and technical. Assuming that the router somehow knows it's "known active connections" (somehow), how does a packet "match" a particular connection, and what does any of this have to do with the idea of a "firewall", and ultimately computer security?Tym Whittier (talk) 07:06, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

§"Application-level filters" needs sources
The "Application-level filters" section doesn't seem to have any citations. If sources from the main Application firewall article were used, it may be good to copy over relevant citations (and check that the source contains the claims).

Catleeball (talk) 22:51, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , this entire wiki needs a ton of work. i have been going around trying to fix other associated wikis as well like firewall (computing). i would say that if something doesnt look right to you, then add a tag or if its way off, remove it. alternatively, if you can find a source for the claims, that would be pretty nice. i will make an effort to tidy this up over the next week or so also.  Stay Free 76  talk 22:31, 29 August 2020 (UTC)


 * : Sorry for my slow reply here, but thank you for all of your improvements and citations on this article! Catleeball (talk)

Dedicated article not needed/ merge usable to Main?
after reading over everything multiple times, i feel this article should just be deleted as it is a rehash to firewall (computing). there is more details here, but non of them have sources. i would say that the stuff talking about TCP 3 way handshake or the explanation of how it tracks state should be kept, if there is a source explaining it, but that info should be added to the connection tracking section in the main firewall article. a source should be easy to find.

tldr: i would like to delete this article, but merge anything i can find a decent source for on the 3 way handshake or how conn tracking works. if anyone has any objects please chime in.  Stay Free 76  talk 01:21, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Update: i went ahead and reworked the article since the deletion proposal was [awkwardly] removed (the reason for removing the deletion proposal were the same reasons listed as a reason to remove the article). in its current state it is much more direct and all of the false information has been removed. with that, i feel the article doesn't need to be deleted and can also be re expanded back out. i added an editors note at the top to keep the information specific to a stateful firewall (previous states contained layer 7 firewall details and random web exploit stuff). i added 1 source so far, but i hope to find some more soon.  Stay Free 76  talk 17:27, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

For future reference, you don't need to do any deletion procedure to WP:REDIRECT an article. Just replace the contents with #redirect .... If someone doesn't like it they can simply revert. ~Kvng (talk) 13:48, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * thanks for that. i ended up in a rabbit hole of wiki docs to figure out the best thing to do and it was brutal and arguably not the best.  Stay Free 76  talk 00:39, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , feel free to reach out directly to me at my user talk page for help if you need it in the future. ~Kvng (talk) 02:40, 10 September 2020 (UTC)