Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

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At first glance, stateful packet filtering appears to have conquered the firewall world, both in terms of market share and mind share. The list of products based on stateful packet filtering is a long ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue we're having, and I'm wondering if it's possible that a misconfigured firewall or proxy could be passing the private IP of a system as the source address to an ...

Consider the venerable Web proxy—back when the Internet was new to most of us, setting up a Web proxy was a convenient way to grant users of an otherwise non-Internet-connected network access to the ...

Hackers will often hide their identities while attempting to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable servers. If a hacker is using an anonymous proxy server, you can block access via the Windows ...

Unlike its packet-filtering cousin, this type of firewall does more than simply block port access. Instead, it acts as a proxy server; processing access requests on behalf of the network on which it ...

If you're upgrading your firewall, or installing one on your network for the first time, you'll discover that firewall technology has changed a lot in the last several years. How do you select one ...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this. The issues is mainly with the firewall, so I guess that here is as good a place as any.<BR><BR>The problem is that we want to enable access to hotmail ...