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Effective IPTables Firewall Configuration with PCX Solution

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PCX Firewall is an IPTables firewalling solution that uses Perl to generate static shell scripts based upon the user's configuration settings. This allows the firewall to startup quickly, as it does not have to parse config files every time it starts

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Control Your Netfilter Settings with the Knetfilter KDE Application

Knetfilter is a KDE application designed to manage the netfilter functionalities that will come with the new kernel 2.4.x.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Enhancing Network Security For Remote Offices With Firewalls

This documentation discusses supporting telecommuters remote small-office sites and how you can setup a firewall to protect the network from being very useful for obscuring a hacker's tracks on the way to his or her final destination.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Explore Unique Capabilities Of IP Filter Open Source Firewall

IP Filter is a great little firewall package. It does just about everything other free firewalls (ipfwadm, ipchains, ipfw) do, but it's also portable and does neat stuff the others don't.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Guide to Configuring a Linux Personal Firewall for SOHO Networking

This documentation will show you how to set up a Linux-based personal firewall for the SOHO (small office, home office), broadband-attached network. It also takes a look at several SOHO firewalls and determines whether or not they can keep your syste

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Shoreline Firewall: Iptables Protection For Linux Environments

The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) is an iptables based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function masquerade gateway/server or on a standalone Linux system.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Understanding HttpTunnel for Bidirectional Data Transfers

httptunnel creates a bidirectional virtual data connection tunnelled in HTTP requests. The HTTP requests can be sent via an HTTP proxy if so desired.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Boost Network Security Through Dynamic Firewall Scripting Techniques

In this documentation, you will learn how to make rapid, complex changes to your firewall rules dynamic firewall scripts. You can use these scripts to increase your network security and responsiveness, and to inspire your own creative designs.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Effective Firewall Design Considerations For Networking

This paper here is not a set of instructions of how to built an access nexus it is more like a white paper of things you should expect from such a device and be able to ask for them from you vendor.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Frox: A Transparent FTP Proxy with Caching Capabilities Unleashed

It is a transparent ftp proxy which is released under the GPL. It also has some limited support for caching through an external cache (eg. squid).

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Loggrep: Manage Kernel Logs with Enhanced Filtering and Detection

Loggrep greps kernel logfiles on ipchains firewall log entries and features the ability to filter against given entries (date, IP, port, ..). It also features a quasi-detection of portscanning, line count on given options and html output.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Check Point Firewall-1 for Linux: First Steps in Installation Process

This is the first in a series of three articles that will examine Check Point Firewall-1 for Linux. This installment will consist of a brief introductory overview of Firewall-1, and a discussion of installation, post-installation tasks, as well as si

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Explore WallFire: An Innovative Modular Firewall Solution Today

The goal of WallFire is to build a very general and modular firewalling application based on netfilter or any kind of low-level framework. It will provide a multi-language API, command line and interactive console tools as well as X or HTML front-end

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Setting Up A Simple Linux Firewall For Effective Security Protection

This document discusses how to set up a very simple firewall for Linux, to greatly increase the security of your box against outside attacks.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Exploring Firestarter And Storm Firewall For Enhanced Linux Security

This documentation takes a look at two GUI-based firewalling solutions for Linux: one a commercial offering from Stormix Technologies (Storm Firewall), and the other a free software project that integrates with the GNOME desktop (Firestarter).

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Boosting Linux Security: Implementing Floppyfw as a Static Router

floppyfw is a static router with the firewall-capabilities in Linux.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Enhance Your IPChains Management Efficiency with Webmin Module Tools

This module creates a shell script containing all calls for ipchains. You can modify the chains and the rules in these chains.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Essential Safeguarding Initiatives and Research Evidence Collections

Here's a great set of links on firewall software, books, whitepapers, and research to use as a starting point.

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

DeleGate Proxy Server: A Multi-Protocol Communication Gateway

Multi-purpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms (Unix, Windows and OS/2). DeleGate mediates communication of various protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, POP, Telnet, etc.), applying cache and conversion for mediate

Anthony Pell
Nov 24, 2004

Guide to Configuring SOHO Firewalls with Packet Filtering and Routing

This documentation will discuss how SOHO firewalls are not safe and it will also discuss packet-filtering firewalls and policy-based routing.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

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