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.

Industry: Network hardware

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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 practice 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 ...

inbound

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to network traffic that originates from the unprotected side of a Raptor Firewall.

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 ...

SMTP

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means Simple Mail Transport Protocol, and refers to the primary method of moving email across the Internet. SMTP uses port 25/TCP.

UID

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

A decimal number that uniquely identifies a gateway username on the firewall. In essence, the UID becomes, for the firewall software, synonymous with the username. UIDs are entered as part of the ...