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Assignment: Answer the following questions:
1. List three design goals for a firewall.
2. List four techniques used by firewalls to control access and enforce a security policy.
3. What information is used by a typical packet filtering firewall?
4. What are some weaknesses of a packet filtering firewall?
5. What is the difference between a packet filtering firewall and a stateful inspection firewall?
6. What is an application-level gateway?
7. What is a circuit-level gateway?
8. What are the common characteristics of a bastion host?
9. Why is it useful to have host-based firewalls?
10. What is a DMZ network and what types of systems would you expect to find on such networks?
11. What is the difference between an internal and an external firewall?