A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A FIREWALL RULE AND A CORRESPONDING SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to a method for providing a firewall rule com¬ prising the steps of ° a) defining a firewall rule for filtering network traffic, ° b) providing a layer order network protocol and a higher layer network protocol, ° c) analyzing the firewall rule, ° d) decomposing the analyzed firewall rule, ° e) generating at least one lower layer rule according to the lower layer network protocol and at least one higher layer rule according to the higher layer protocol from the decomposed firewall rule, ° f) providing the generated lower layer rule to a flow-based switch device for routing network traffic according to the generated lower layer rule and the generated higher layer rule to a firewall device for filtering network traffic according to the firewall rule.