One of the main driving forces behind a new Internet protocol (IPv6) was the assumption that the 32-bit address used by IPv4 was not large enough to keep up with the quickly growing Internet. It was assumed that eventually the entire address space would be used up. Of course, other features of IPv6, such as […]
No one type of firewall that has been discussed can meet the needs of every situation. It is often a good idea to have several levels of defense against attack from outside your network. It is easy to segment your network so that it does not appear as one entity to the Internet. You can […]
For the small office environment it is just too expensive to hire a full-time person to manage an enterprise firewall. However, you can still protect your LAN to a large degree by using a few simple products. There are both hardware and software firewall solutions. For example, cable/DSL routers use NAT, which helps to hide […]
