The festival of Diwali is being celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains this week. Click to follow. The Independent Online. One of the most significant festivals in Indian culture, Diwali, the festival of lights, sees millions attend firework displays, prayers and celebratory events across the world every autumn.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In computing, a stateful firewall (any firewall that performs stateful packet inspection (SPI) or stateful inspection) is a firewall that keeps track of the state of network connections (such as TCP streams, UDP communication) traveling across it. stateful firewall keeps track of the state of network connections (such as TCP streams or UDP communication) and is able to hold significant attributes of each connection in memory.
Stateful vs. Stateless Firewalls. A firewall can be described as being either Stateful, or Stateless. Stateless firewalls watch network traffic, and restrict or block packets based on source and destination addresses or other static values. They are not 'aware' of traffic patterns or data flows.