Personal Stateful Firewall Overview 
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Supported Features 
 
The Personal Stateful Firewall supports the following features: 
 
  Protection against DoS Attacks 
  Application-level Gateway (ALG) Support 
  Stateful Packet Filtering and Inspection Support 
  Stateless Packet Filtering and Inspection Support 
  Host Pool, IMSI Pool, and Port Map Support 
  Flow Recovery Support 
  SNMP Thresholding Support 
  Logging Support 
 
Protection against Denial-of-Service Attacks 
Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks can deprive network resources/services 
unavailable to its intended users. 
 
DoS attacks can result in: 
 
  A host consuming excessive resources — memory, disk space, CPU time, etc. — eventually leading to a system 
crash or providing very sluggish response. 
  Flooding of the network to the extent that no valid traffic is able to reach the intended destination. 
  Confusing target TCP/IP stack on destination hosts by sending crafted, malformed packets eventually resulting 
in system crash. 
DoS attacks can destroy data in affected mobile nodes. Stateful Firewall is designed to defend subscribers and prevent 
the abuse of network bandwidth from DoS attacks originating from both the Internet and the internal network. 
 
Types of Denial-of-Service Attacks 
Personal Stateful Firewall can detect the following DoS attacks. 
 
The DoS attacks are listed based on the protocol layer that they work on. 
 
  IP-based Attacks: