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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

Standard proxies

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Every Raptor 6.0 firewall comes equipped with application-level proxies for managing CIFS/SMB, DNS, FTP, Gopher, HTTP, H.323, NTP, NNTP, Ping, realaudio/video, SMTP, and telnet access. The standard ...

Inside

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the hosts protected by the firewall. In common parlance, these hosts are behind the firewall, and hence on an inside network. So, by extension, the unprotected networks and hosts are ...

Interface-based rule

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

A very general authorization rule that applies to packets that arrive on a particular interface on the firewall.

InterNIC

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Internet Information Center" and refers to the Internet's governing/charter organization.

IPSEC

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Internet Protocol (IP) Security" and refers to the suite of protocols being developed at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) that can be used for secure, private ...

IRC

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Internet Relay Chat", or simply "Chat", and refers to the application protocol that uses 6667/TCPxr.

ISAKMP

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol", and refers to a proposed standard for dynamic key exchange for VPN. Also known as IKE.

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