Software Secure Firewall Threat Defense
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Advanced Network Analysis and Preprocessing Transport and Network Layer Preprocessors TCP Stream Preprocessing

Last updated: Jul 29, 2025

TCP Stream Preprocessing


 

This section applies to Snort 2 preprocessors. For information on Snort 3 inspectors, see https://www.cisco.com/go/snort3-inspectors.

The TCP protocol defines various states in which connections can exist. Each TCP connection is identified by the source and destination IP addresses and source and destination ports. TCP permits only one connection with the same connection parameter values to exist at a time.