topic stateful inspection in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/stateful-inspection/m-p/1065171#M894352 <P>Hi all, with the asa firewall, does it perform stateful inspection both ways, i mean inside to outside, and outside to inside.</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:04:38 GMT carl_townshend 2019-03-11T14:04:38Z stateful inspection https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/stateful-inspection/m-p/1065171#M894352 <P>Hi all, with the asa firewall, does it perform stateful inspection both ways, i mean inside to outside, and outside to inside.</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:04:38 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/stateful-inspection/m-p/1065171#M894352 carl_townshend 2019-03-11T14:04:38Z Re: stateful inspection https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/stateful-inspection/m-p/1065172#M894356 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are you talking about the 'regular' L3/l4 state table maintained by the firewall? or the Deep packet/Applicaion inspection.</P><P></P><P>The first one is both ways, meaning any traffic that is allowed to go back is allowed to come back in. Similarly any traffic coming from outside (that is allowed in) will be allowed out (as long as the traffic is part of the same flow).</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P></P><P>Farrukh</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:44 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/stateful-inspection/m-p/1065172#M894356 Farrukh Haroon 2008-10-29T12:03:44Z