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+The firewall can keep track of the source and destination IPs and ports for
+out-going UDP packets. Then, when an UDP packet comes in, it can check of these
+same data (though source and destination are swapped) match somewhere in the
+table of outgoing packets. If there is a match, the firewall may assume the
+incoming packet is a response - and accept it - otherwise, it may drop it.
+