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 When the first TCP packet is received (SYN), the firewall must setup a session. Since the application can not be detected on a TCP session until at least one data packet traverses the device, the application will be incomplete.  For the firewall to determine if it should even allow the SYN packet through it must do a security policy lookup.


Because the application is not known when the SYN packet is received the application portion of the security policies can not be applied. As a result, the security policy lookup is performed against the 6 tuples of the session, source and destination IP and port, ingress interface (actually zone) and protocol. The first policy, which matches these 6 tuples, will be used to allow the SYN and any additional packets that traverse the firewall before the application is identified.


It is always a good idea to look at any new application details first to determine what the security rule might need to allow the application to work properly. Also, this may help prevent any application dependency warning messages upon commits.

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