COMPUTER NETWORKING

Detailed explanation-1: -A firewall has one main use and purpose and that is to examine traffic passing through a part of the network and make decisions about what to let through and what to block. ACLs do stateless inspection, which means that the access list looks at a packet and has no knowledge of what has come before it.

Detailed explanation-2: -An ACL works as a stateless firewall. While a stateful firewall examines the contents of network packets, a stateless firewall only checks if the packets follow the defined security rules.