September 29th, 2003, 10:01 AM
Most firewalls will have an explicit deny at the end of every rule. It is a default setting for firewalls.
I'm not sure for SonicWall, but for Cisco, there'll be a "deny any any" at the end of the...
September 29th, 2003, 09:51 AM
To view all the ports assignment on your WinXP PC, use notepad to open the "services" file in WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC.
You can modify the port from their default settings. I.e http -tcp port 80...
September 29th, 2003, 09:01 AM
To block all other traffic and only allow HTTP or FTP traffic, you should only allow tcp port 80 (for web), tcp port 23(FTP) , and udp port 53(DNS, to resolve the urls). All other traffic/ports...
September 29th, 2003, 08:44 AM
WLAN although have been around for a fews now is still an its infant stage.
If you company is only using web browsing, then WLAN is the way to go.
However if you company is using a lot of...
September 29th, 2003, 08:34 AM
There are a few authentication /securing your wireless environment.
One of the them is called MAC filtering, where only the MAC address that is specified on your WLAN access point will be allowed...
September 29th, 2003, 08:25 AM
Normally a software firewall will utilise much more resources ie CPU, and memory than a hardware firewall. A hardware firewall is a dedicated hardware to do filtering, else on a software firewall,...