SonicWALL TZ 190 Manuale Utente

Deep Packet Inspection technology enables the firewall to investigate farther into the protocol 
to examine information at the application layer and defend against attacks targeting application 
vulnerabilities. This is the technology behind SonicWALL Intrusion Prevention Service. 
SonicWALL’s Deep Packet Inspection technology enables dynamic signature updates pushed 
from the SonicWALL Distributed Enforcement Architecture.

The following steps describe how the SonicWALL Deep Packet Inspection Architecture works:

Pattern Definition Language Interpreter uses signatures that can be written to detect and 
prevent against known and unknown protocols, applications and exploits. 

TCP packets arriving out-of-order are reassembled by the Deep Packet Inspection framework. 

Deep Packet Inspection engine preprocessing involves normalization of the packet’s payload. 
For example, a HTTP request may be URL encoded and thus the request is URL decoded in 
order to perform correct pattern matching on the payload.

Deep Packet Inspection engine postprocessors perform actions which may either simply pass 
the packet without modification, or could drop a packet or could even reset a TCP connection. 

SonicWALL’s Deep Packet Inspection framework supports complete signature matching across 
the TCP fragments without performing any reassembly (unless the packets are out of order). 
This results in more efficient use of processor and memory for greater performance.

Stateful Packet Inspection - looking at the header of the packet to control access based 
on port, protocol, and IP address.