Tag
connection-tracking
- Oct 6, 2025 Security Groups and the Stateful Connection Tracker How an interface-level firewall decides that a returning packet belongs to an existing flow, why there is no rule for replies, and what happens when the tracking table fills. cloud infrastructure
- Apr 23, 2023 How a Stateful Firewall Matches a Packet The order in which a packet filter evaluates rules, how the connection-tracking table overrides the rule set, and where the model breaks under fragmentation and asymmetric routing. security
- Jan 31, 2023 Connection Tracking Under NAT How address and port translation rewrites the five-tuple, why the mapping table is the real policy state, and which behaviours the NAT requirement documents leave to the implementation. security