Episode
PP098: What Goes On Inside a Firewall?
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- Packet Protector
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- Feb 24, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3467
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Summary
On today’s show, we pop the lid off of a firewall (figuratively speaking) to understand what’s inside. We talk about how a packet moves through various packet-processing elements inside a firewall, how header analysis and de-encapsulation work, which hardware component has the biggest impact on performance, why stateful inspection still matters in an age of ... Read more »