Firewall & VPN

Firewall & VPN

Terms relating to firewalls, which help keep a network safe by not accepting potentially harmful datapackets. Also relates to VPNs, or virtual private networks, that virtually provide a different IP address which makes it seem that the user is using a computer from another location.

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Secondary server

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to an authoritative DNS server that receives domain/zone information (that is, the DNS resource records it is responsible for) by requesting this information from the primary server for the ...

Security association

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

The IPSEC mechanism by which the management of authentication and encryption algorithms and their keys are decoupled from the suite of IPSEC protocols. A bidirectional communications session ...

Server-side transparency

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

The opposite of client-side transparency (see "transparent"). A transparent connexion (TCP) or data stream (UDP) in which the firewall is transparent to the client. In other words, the client ...

Service redirection

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Service Redirection is an application-level feature of the Raptor Firewall that operates with the firewall's standard proxies and the GSP. In simple terms, service redirection allows the firewall ...

SRL

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Secure Remote Login", and refers to the encrypted and secured login facility available with the Raptor Firewall. SRL uses port 423/TCP.

SMTPd

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "SMTP daemon", and refers to the Raptor SMTP proxy that is installed as part of the Raptor Firewall. SMTPd is one of the firewall's standard proxies.