what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / ishita

A firewall is a part of the computer or network which
prevents unauthorized access to it.Firewalls are frequently
used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing
private networks connected to the Internet.It regulates
traffic of the network of different trust levels.
On the other hand,Access Control List refers to rules that
are applied to port numbers or network daemon names that are
available on a host, each with a list of hosts and/or
networks permitted to use the service. Both individual
servers as well as routers can have network ACLs.
This way. ACL are the rules to be implemented for security
while firewall is he complete setup or mechanism.

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / durai

Firewall provides a permission or destroys for a packet to
enter inside our network from private network .
Acl's which provide rules to control which type of packet
to be destroyed or permitted

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / vishnu raaz

firewall is a network component it is commonaly use in
network for prevent attack from internet.Acl's which
provide rules to control which type of packet
to be destroyed or permitted

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / arun

A firewall is a secure and trusted machine that sits between
a private network and a public network.
Access Control List is a list of permissions attached to an
object.The list specifies who or what is allowed to access
the object and what operations are allowed to be performed
on the object.

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / shailandra prakash trivedi

A firewall is a secure and trusted machine that sits between
a private network and a public network.
Access Control List is a list of permissions attached to an
object.The list specifies who or what is allowed to access
the object and what operations are allowed to be performed
on the object.

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / avdhesh singh yadav jhansi (u.

Firewall provides a permission or destroys for a packet to
enter inside our network from private network .
Acl's which provide rules to control which type of packet
to be destroyed or permitted

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / pravin

Firewall-is a mechanism.
ACL is set of rule.

And we can say mechanism is reversible in nature while rule are irreversible.Means firewall check both side of data when we want to send or we receive while in ACL rules are applied only on instructed interface means on inside or out side. 

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what is firewall?How it differs from ACLS?..

Answer / devroy

An ACL is a basic level of stateless packet filtering. If
that meets your (low) security requirements, then that's
fine.

A firewall generally includes stateful packet inspection.
This will provide a higher level of security than an ACL.

That said, you need to look at the specific
implementations, as what one vendor calls an ACL another
may call a firewall.
Look at
http://www.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/2002APR/2002APR08_ICD_NTEK_R
FD_CT_MSD_TAC.PDF

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