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An introduction to Firewalls |
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2011-11-02 18:50:18 |
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A computer network Firewall refers to a network device which blocks certain kinds of network traffic, forming a barrier between a trusted and an untrusted network.
Firewall is vital component in network administration and management.
For a complete seminar on Firewall, research on following points:
- Packet filtering
- Network security
- Packet filtering
- Port filtering
- IP filtering
- URL filtering
- Application gateway
- Circuit-level gateway
- Network inbound and outbound communications
- Proxy servers
- Squid proxy
- Network routers
- Hardware Firewalls
- Software firewall (VisNetic Firewall etc)
- Cisco, Sonicwall, Netgear, D-Link
More related to email server, but have a look at it:
- Composite Blocking List (CBL), DNS-based Blackhole List
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External References |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1311930
http://www.howstuffworks.com/firewall.htm
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/firewall.html
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