METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FIREWALL WITH MULTIPLE ADDRESSES

摘要

The invention takes advantage of the capability of assigning multiple addresses to a single host to improve the processing performed by a firewall in a packet-switched network. The host utilizes a plurality of addresses to refer to groups of related tasks on the host. When the firewall receives an outbound packet having one of these source addresses, it authorizes further inbound packets addressed to the particular source address.