What is a Reflexive Access List?
——————————– Reflexive access lists are setup access rules configured at a router and are used to permit IP traffic for sessions originating within your network but to deny IP traffic for sessions originating outside your network. If an inside user requests a connection to starts a session with a remote address, the reflexive access list will remember that remote address and allow it to send traffic back to the inside network during the session. But an An outside address that has not received a connection request from inside will be blocked. Technical Details: ——————————– How Do Reflexive Access Lists Work? Reflexive access lists are similar in many ways to other access lists. They contain condition statements (entries) that define criteria for permitting IP packets. Reflexive access lists contain only temporary entries; these entries are automatically created when a new IP session begins (for example, with an outbound packet), and the entries a
