Image via Wikipedia Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique address. This is called its ‘IP address’ and is very similar to the format of your home address. Your home address consists of the town/village and street where you live. Similarly, an IP address has two parts. The first is a ‘network’ portion [...]
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Firewalls And IP Addresses
January 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Tags: Broadband·Firewall·Internet Protocol·Internet service provider·IP address·Local area network·Packet·Protocols
How Does A Firewall Work?
January 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
You may want to read the previous post first to get a handle on what packets are. This article will then make more sense for you. There are two main types of firewall: Packet Web Filter Application Level Gateway A Packet Web Filter has no knowledge of the existence of sessions. So it deals with [...]
Tags: Addressing·Application Level Gateway·Firewall·IP·IP address·Products·Protocols·Security