Which historical development first enabled firewalls to evaluate the state of a connection rather than each packet independently?

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Which historical development first enabled firewalls to evaluate the state of a connection rather than each packet independently?

Basic packet filtering in late 1980s

Creation of application-layer proxy firewalls

Introduction of circuit-level gateways at Bell Labs

Invention of stateful inspection technology in the early 1990s

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