White Paper Abstract:
Flexible Packet Matching (FPM) provides a means to implement network-based blocking of known attack vectors for the advanced user. FPM is the next generation access control list (ACL) pattern matching tool for more thorough and customized packet filters. The technology provides the ability to match on arbitrary bits of a packet at arbitrary depth in the packet header and payload. It removes the constraints to specific fields that previously had limited packet inspection. FPM is provisioned using CLI and off-box XML.