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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Firewall & VPN

Host entity

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

A Net Entity that denotes a single IP host.

Host route

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

A route for a specific host address, rather than a network address. Useful for assigning a virtual address.

HTTPd

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "HTTP daemon", and refers to the firewall's standard proxy for HTTP, which is installed as part of the Raptor software.

HTTPS

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

The HTTPS protocol is sometimes referred to as Secure HTTP, and is basically HTTP over SSL (Secure Socket Layer). The Raptor Firewall's standard HTTP proxy, called httpd, also handles HTTPS traffic ...

IKE

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Internet Key Exchange" and refers to the dynamic keying (Oakley) component of ISAKMP.

Illegal address

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the ill-advised practise of configuring the hosts on a network with IP addresses that are registered to (that is, owned by) another entity on the Internet. Since the locations of the ...