To stop unauthorised access to your network from outside you need to have a firewall that monitors and blocks incoming traffic. To stop unauthorised access from your network to the outside you need a firewall that monitors and blocks outgoing traffic. This type is a useful back up for virus and ...
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How to set address lange limit on inbound firewall rule on Netgear DG834GU
In the firewall settings on a Netgear DG834GU modem/router I am trying to create an inbound rule that allows SMTP traffic (port 25) only from an address range (only allow mail from Postini anti-spam ...
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What security changes are necessary when connecting DSL modem directly to PC instead of router?
Windows XP
I have a user with a single PC that was connected to the internet via a standard home router. The router is now having hardware-related issues and to save money, they're considering ...
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FlashFXP asking to connect to unknown remote address
I installed Agnitum Outpost firewall which tells me about every connection happening on every port. When I try to connect to my FTP server on port 21 (hosted on mediatemple.com), I get an outgoing ...
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Deny all incoming connections with iptables?
I want to make some simple iptables rules to deny all incoming connections and allow outgoing. How can I do that?
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Reason for Windows 7 firewall being a half-functional product? [closed]
Windows 7 firewall is totally unusable because it never notifies you when it blocks an outbound connection. Therefore it's very hard to configure outbound rules. Microsoft itself believes that all ...
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Which port must I unblock in firewall for FTPS using WinScp to evade Timeout?
I'm suing FTPS in WinScp for sending data to my Synology diskstation. When I'm doing it inside a private network using port 21 for connection everything works fine. But when I'm trying the same thing ...
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Cannot access my website from outside my localhost
I have test website on my system (MacBook Pro with Mac OSX Lion). The website is served by nginx listening on port 8000. The listen configuration is listen 8000 default, so it should be open to accept ...
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putty connection timeout while server is running, firewall open
I am attempting to connect to my desktop using SSH through putty. The desktop is running scientific linux 6.2. I can SSH into the desktop from itself, so sshd is running correctly. I have the ssh ...
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Limit access to facebook [migrated]
I manage a network of about 60 windows computers. There is a ton of wasted time during the day because of facebook access. I want to limit employee access to facebook.com to < 30 mins per day.
I ...
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Using my previous desktop computer as custom ubuntu router, will throughput be high?
I'm going to be redoing my home network soon and am thinking of using a dedicated ubuntu machine to use as the router/firewall as well as being a web server, nas (media file server), dns, wifi, and ...
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Can I see list of all IP blocked by my firewall and router?
I am using inbuilt firewall of windows 7. ( I am also using Microsoft security essentials ). My router is Netgear WNR1000v2 . Now can I see list of all IP which are blocked by either my firewall or ...
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How to test there is firewall in front of a server
I have a python script that sends some records from one server to another server using SOAP web services but after sending some records it gives:
'urllib2.URLError'> exception: <urlopen error ...
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Why does Cisco PIX firewall prevent network traffic?
I understand that our Cisco PIX firewall will prevent a node on the LAN from sending traffic to an outside point on the outside of the firewall and then having said traffic come back in through the ...
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can in-browser flash be stopped from interacting with the network, either via configuration or through firewall (on Windows)?
suppose I want to allow loading of SWF files (like ads, simple games etc) but I don't want to allow them transmit info back to the server. How do I go about doing this on Windows? Is there such ...
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are there browser plugins to impose default “single domain per website” policy? or should such feature be implemented in firewall?
suppose I want to have the following web browsing policy. When I navigate to specific domain, I only allow the browser to communicate with that specific domain by default. If the website tries to ...
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Can't block a specific application in Windows 7 Firewall
I am using Windows 7 64 bit and trying to block a specific application from accessing the internet using "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" (wf.msc).
The rule is set to be applied for all ...
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Is there a way to sync/mirror website file and database between two remote servers?
Here's my situation, I have website "A" sitting behind a intranet firewall, inaccessible to the people outside the intranet. I intend to have a outsourced developer work on "A", but he's not able to ...
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Make a VPN connection only for RDP
I am connecting to a cisco VPN router via PPTP on my windows 7 Ultimate machine. Like most VPN's, it connects just fine but also redirects all of my traffic through the VPN. I really only need RDP ...
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Maximum protection on a computer network? [closed]
I would like to secure as much as possible a computer I am using to sync sensitive data files from work to my home pc. The syncronisation is being done by only 1 software is there a firewall to allow ...
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What free, visual *nix firewall building tools are there? [closed]
Are there any visual firewall building tools for linux based systems?
I know of one but it's not free.
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How to quickly Enable/Disable Internet Traffic so that it ONLY goes to ONE program?
What Firewall program (preferably free) can I use to quickly enable/disable internet traffic so that it only goes to one program?
For example, sometimes I need only one program (Program X) to be ...
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OSX Lion, open a local port so people on my network can access it
I'm running django's simple HTTP server (using python manage.py runserver). It's currently running on port 8000. How can I open a port on my macbook and allow network traffic to visit my localhost on ...
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Robust way to acces my computers behind NAT and firewalls?
I am searching for a robust way to access my computers (on any port when possible) whether they are behind several NAT gateways or not. By robust I mean I want to access the computers whenever they ...
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How to enable response to broadcast ping on Windows?
I have many Windows servers in the lab. I wanted to use ping broadcasting to discover the machines. I try to avoid a central server to maintain the list of machines as this seems like a single point ...
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How to open a port for all users: NSA 2400
I'm trying to open up port 8332 for all users behind my firewall but can only find instructions for doing so for a single IP address. How do I make sure all my users can use a specific port?
I've ...
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forbid connection to ip address in hostfile doesn't work?
hostfile allows to map domain name to local host.
But what if I only have pure ip adress ?
I tried to do so using hostman editor but it doesn't want to even add the line.
so how to do this ?
I ...
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Running Smoothwall in Virtualbox
Okay so here's my deal,I need to run Smoothwall in a VM using Virtualbox running on a host PC with two physical NICs. I have some roommates and we are all sharing one internet connection which ...
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does http://localhost/myapp from a desktop PC on a Windows network go through network firewall?
I am trying to find out if the (hardware) firewall on our network would be scanning packets when I type this in a browser window:
http://localhost:51502/myapp.
Would "localhost" packets be ...
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How to bypass FortiGuard? [closed]
How to bypass FortiGuard?
There are alot of sites which are blocked because of FortiGuard.even the https
the proxy are blocked also .
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how do I block downloading data from a web domain, including by javascript code?
I am unhappy with google's javascript loading various BS from *.gstatic.com domain. I tried telling my firewall to block *.gstatic.com but apparently this only blocked loading webpages into the ...
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Router port forwarding stopped working
First of all, I've read all the relevant questions here I could find... I use RealVNC to connect to my computer at home - everything worked without any problems, but today I couldn't connect from ...
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Proxification rulte for System process
I'm trying to configure Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 remote debugging and ran into issue: while connecting to remote computer running MSVSMON, client computer sends SYN request for connection. It ...
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Port forwarding does not work always?
I opened port 25374, this is eMule TCP port, then I use canyouseeme.org to check if it is really opened.
I got the weird problem :
when eMule was running, canyouseeme.org saw my port. I got the ...
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How can I disable any TCP/IP port on a Windows 7 machine?
I need help on finding out how to disable any particular TCP/IP port on a Windows box whenever a need arises.
I googled before posting the question and I got links to articles mentioning only
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Allow access from outside network with dmz and iptables
I'm having a problem with my home network.
So my setup is like this:
In my Router (using Ubuntu desktop v11.04),
I installed squid proxy as my transparent proxy.
So I would like to use dyndns ...
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What do I need to open on my Windows Firewall to allow GFI Security Endpoint functionality
I've been asked to switch off my firewall so that GFI Security Endpoint will work properly, I'm not switching off my firewall!
What do I need to do on my windows firewall to allow GFI Security ...
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UnPn device accessible via public ip when on internal network only why?
setup my Foscam IP cam lastnight on the Wireless network using UnPn and was able to access it fine via the public IP , using another PC on the same network with no issues. However when I tried to ...
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What port(s) etc. need to be open on a firewall to allow successful operation with BitBucket
Over the weekend, our IT department installed an updated firewall. As a result, we are no longer able to pull from (and push to) the repository on BitBucket.
Attempting to perform a Mercurial ...
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Stopped windows firewall service during ICS, how is this possible?
Although windows firewall is required to be on when you "start" Internet Connection Sharing, you can stop the WF service with MMC. When done a client can still use the host machines internet. The ...
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Does ICS modify windows firewall policies in the registry?
I had a host machine I wanted to enable ICS on. First I realized that doing so was not possible until I enabled the Windows Firewall. Once I enabled the firewall and set up ICS, I noticed due to ...
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Accessing my Rails webrick behind proxy?
In my mackbook, when I try to connect to my rails application in office I can't , in the office there are some http proxy , and when I run my rails like this :
sudo rails s -p8080
=> Booting ...
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Linux, how to force all traffic to specific host over VPN?
I'm trying to ensure that all traffic to our stats server is forced over the VPN, in the case that the VPN falls down, it shouldn't be that the traffic tries to route over the WAN. To short-circuit ...
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Trying to configure a hardware firewall with a wireless router
I have a network with 5 PCs, 2 network printers, and one wireless handheld scanner. I was just running software firewalls but wanted to add a hardware firewall to up the security. I have no problems ...
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User Receives a “Error Code: 403 Forbidden” but no one else does. What can I suggest that they do to fix it?
I have a ClickOnce application that is published to an IIS web server and the install page and installation process has been working perfectly for years.
One of my new users has recently tried to go ...
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iptables trouble: nat with ip alias (virtual interface) not working
I'm setting up an Ubuntu 11.10 server to act as firewall for a network running several different SSL websites. The idea is fairly common: have all public IP's for each site aliased to the public ...
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A small open-source firewall for Windows XP? [closed]
I.e.:
as slim as GhostWall(*) (implementing trivial allow/disallow rules based on port/protocol/direction)
preferably, with a GUI
but
open source
supported (not abandoned some years ago)
(*) ...
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Cannot access local server via home router — but works from outside
I have a webserver running on my private PC at home. This PC is running Windows 7.
The PC is connected to a home router via WiFi. That home router is configured with a port-forwarding rule that makes ...
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Home Internet lockdown?
I've noticed that at schools and such, their networks are somehow able to block certain sites from anyone who connects to it.
I would like to set up a similar system at home for my family and all ...
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Networking Setup and Configuration
I have a Router, Modem, Switch, and a Switch.
Firewall: FVS338
Switch: FS762T
What I would like to do is the following:
Modem <----> Firewall <---> |
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Cisco ASA Firewall VPN connection issue
Sometimes when my co-workers and I connect to the LAN at work from home, we get this weird issue.
The VPN connection is established without error, but we cant do a remote desktop on the machines in ...
