Windows Filtering Platform

E193827

Windows networking component networking platform

Windows Filtering Platform is a set of APIs and system services in Microsoft Windows that enables developers and the operating system to create, manage, and filter network traffic at various layers of the networking stack.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Windows networking stack	2
Base Filtering Engine	1
Windows Filtering Platform canonical	1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Windows networking component ⓘ networking platform ⓘ
allows	address-based filtering ⓘ direction-based filtering ⓘ interface-based filtering ⓘ per-application network filtering ⓘ per-service network filtering ⓘ per-user network filtering ⓘ port-based filtering ⓘ protocol-based filtering ⓘ
availableIn	Windows 10 ⓘ Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 8.1 ⓘ Windows Server 2008 ⓘ Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2012 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2016 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2019 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2022 Windows Vista ⓘ
category	Windows networking technology ⓘ network security technology ⓘ
developer	Microsoft ⓘ
documentedIn	Microsoft Docs ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Developer Network Microsoft Learn ⓘ
enables	creation of network filters ⓘ filtering of network traffic ⓘ management of network filters ⓘ
exposes	filtering actions ⓘ filtering conditions ⓘ filtering layers ⓘ
hasComponent	callout modules ⓘ filter engine ⓘ filtering layers ⓘ filters ⓘ provider contexts ⓘ sublayers ⓘ
includes	Windows Filtering Platform self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Base Filtering Engine
integratesWith	IPsec policy enforcement ⓘ Windows Firewall ⓘ surface form: Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
introducedIn	Windows Vista ⓘ
operatingSystem	Windows ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Windows
primaryLanguage	C API ⓘ
provides	APIs for network traffic filtering ⓘ system services for network traffic filtering ⓘ
supports	IPv4 traffic ⓘ IPv6 traffic ⓘ callout drivers ⓘ connection-based filtering ⓘ event-driven filtering callbacks ⓘ filtering at multiple layers of the networking stack ⓘ kernel-mode filtering ⓘ stateful packet inspection ⓘ traffic inspection for QoS ⓘ traffic inspection for parental controls ⓘ traffic inspection for security ⓘ user-mode filtering ⓘ
usedBy	IPsec in Windows ⓘ Windows Firewall ⓘ network security products ⓘ third-party firewall applications ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Windows Firewall → uses → Windows Filtering Platform ⓘ

Windows Filtering Platform → includes → Windows Filtering Platform self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Base Filtering Engine

BranchCache (Enterprise and Ultimate) → componentOf → Windows Filtering Platform ⓘ

this entity surface form: Windows networking stack

Service Pack 2 → improvesComponent → Windows Filtering Platform ⓘ

this entity surface form: Windows networking stack