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Figure 27-27 Default Web interface

A hardware firewall watches for and stops many common threats—all you

have to do is turn it on. Hardware firewalls use Stateful Packet Inspection

(SPI) to inspect each incoming packet individually (see Figure 27-28). SPI

also blocks any incoming traffic that isn’t in response to your outgoing

traffic. You can even disable ports entirely, blocking all traffic in or out. But

what if you want to allow outside users access to a Web server on the LAN?

Because Network Address Translation (NAT) hides the true IP address of

that system (as described in Chapter 21), you’ll need a way to allow

incoming traffic past the router/firewall and a way to redirect that traffic to

the right PC.

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