June 2011
Beginner
372 pages
9h 54m
English
Exploring Firewalls
One of the primary methods of controlling traffic in and out of a network is with a firewall. Firewalls filter traffic using different techniques. Some of the basic types of firewalls are as follows:
Firewalls are also covered in Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials (Wiley, 2011), which covers exam 98-366.
Advanced firewalls can combine all of the filtering methods in a single firewall.
A packet-filtering firewall filters packets based on IP addresses, ports, and some protocols. If you want to allow traffic through a firewall from only specific computers, you can create rules using these computers’ IP addresses. Similarly, ...