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FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
This article is intended to provide some basic guidelines for securing your computer, and a better understanding of how some of these technologies work. It is intended primarily for users of high-speed Internet connections, but most of the article is applicable to dial-up Internet users also.
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Dartmouth College Institute for Security Technology Studies firewall FAQ and other information and research documents in related areas.
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Web site for the book Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker Second Edition by William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, and Aviel D. Rubin. Contains some sample sections and a link to the complete contents of the First Edition.
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Firewalls and Internet Security:
Repelling the Wily Hacker
The long-awaited second edition is here!
It's a complete rewrite of the first edition, considerably longer -- 455
and somewhat different in focus. It had better be, given how the Internet
has changed since 1994. The best way to explain
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An introductory explanation of how a firewall works and the various filtering methods used, with related links.
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Firewalls have helped protect computers in large companies for years. Now, they're a critical component of home networks, as well. See how firewalls work.
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Features a background, basics, design, implementation issues, port and protocol issues. By Matt Curtin and Marcus Ranum. Documents are also available in Postscript and PDF.
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Internet Firewalls: Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 2004/07/26 15:34:42
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This collection of Frequenty Asked Questions (FAQs) and answers has
been compiled over a period of years, seeing which questions people
ask about firewalls in such fora as Usenet, mailing lists, and Web
sites. If
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White paper outlining the basics of firewall systems and giving details on setting up both, a filtering and proxy firewall on a Linux based system.
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Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO
Mark Grennan, v0.83, August 21, 2000
This document is designed to describe the basics of firewall systems and give you some detail on setting up both a filtering and proxy firewall on a Linux based system. An HTML version of this document is available at
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This article is a general introduction to network security issues and solutions in the Internet; emphasis is placed on route filters and firewalls. It is intended as an overview. Some knowledge of IP networking is assumed, although not crucial.
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Network Security, Filters and Firewalls
This article is a general introduction to network security
issues and solutions in the Internet; emphasis is placed on route
filters and firewalls. It is not intended as a guide to setting up a
secure network; its purpose is merely as an overview. Some
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A brief straightforward tutorial on creating a simple routing firewall using Linux and netfilter (iptables).
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router with IP Tables and the Linux 2.4 series kernel is a relatively
simple task to do. Before the arrival of IP Tables support into the
Linux kernel, the kernel was (without patches) only capable of simple
firewall capabilities, similar to a cheap $20 router. Now, however,
the Linux kernel
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This documents intends to show how to build a Firewall/Gateway with rules set on user basis having the users authenticated by a Samba Primary Domain Controller
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Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO
Ricardo Alexandre Mattar v1.3, 2005-01-06
This document intends to show how to build a Firewall/Gateway
with rules set on user basis having the users authenticated by a
Samba Primary Domain Controller
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A collection of whitepapers and other documents on various aspects of firewalls such as what they are, how to choose one, and proper installation.
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This paper intends to identify a package of applications that, properly configured, will provide a firewall with syslog output to a database for queries, ready for analysis and archiving, all on inexpensive hardware at a cost less than $500.
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