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A Layer 2 firewall is also called a(n) _____. Group of answer choices

packet-filtering router
bastion host
packet-filtering bridge
application-level gateway
circuit-level gateway

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Answer:

packet-filtering bridge

Step-by-step explanation:

A Layer 2 transparent firewall operates on bridged packets and is enabled on a pair of locally-switched Ethernet ports. Embedded IP packets forwarded through these ports are inspected similar to normal IP packets in a routing network.

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