A firewall is a piece of software that controls what connections can be made to and from a network.
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Windows 8 firewall blocks browser downloads
I have a curious issue with the windows 8 firewall. When using chrome and internet explorer for hotmail I can't download word or pdf attachments. I also tried to download adobe reader with with ...
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Cannot connect to my mac via SSH
I want to open a connection to my mac (10.8) via SSH. An SSH-server is installed by default on OSX. Remote login is enabled, so the service is running and I can connect to to localhost via ssh.
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Firewall blocks ICMP even with Allow rules, even when disbled
Sometime early October (right after update Tuesday???). My Window 7 home machine stopped responding to anything incoming. Effectively breaking iTunes, Sonos, TiVo Desktop, RDP etc. But all those ...
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How to block a program from using IPv4?
i have a program that can communicate over IPv4 (TCP and UDP) and over IPv6 (TCP and UDP). i want to block the program from being able to use IPv4.
i tried the Windows Firewall:
Except it blocks ...
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Prevent specific application from using metered network connection
Windows 8 introduces the new category of metered network connections. Applications that are aware of this type of connection can choose not to use it in an effort to reduce connection costs.
I would ...
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How to open a server port outside of an OpenVPN tunnel with a pf firewall on OSX (BSD)
I have a Mac mini that I use as a media server running XBMC and serves media from my NAS to my stereo and TV (which has been color calibrated with a Spyder3Express, happy). The Mac runs OSX 10.8.2 and ...
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Blocked outgoing SMTP socket connection in Windows
I have a private email sending application (Windows), which sends email notifications over SMTP protocol. This might look like a code question for StackOverflow, but it is not. The application works ...
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Prohibit internet access for all applications except selected ones (OS X)
Is there a tool that can be used to prohibit internet access for all applications except selected ones (on Mac OS X)?
"Little snitch" can't be the answer, as it doesn't provide a simple "deny all / ...
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Remote desktop on custom ports
We have an office with a Windows 2003 SBS server and a couple of workstations. I set up Microsoft remote desktop for each of the computer in such a way that anyone could remote into the computers ...
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Route traffic from one port to another machine in LAN
I would like to remote desktop to my work computer using hamachi. The hamachi connection works fine and i can use remote desktop but when my session is over hamachi disconects.
I was thinking i ...
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How to unblock jabber on TI ADSL router with iptables
I have old but reliable Texas Instruments ADSL router.
Board AR7RD; BUILD=061005; VERSION=3.7.1 If that matters...
One thing that bothers me is that it somehow blocking my jabber (Pidgin ...
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How do you allow a specific IP Address to bypass your firewall. OS X
Well, my young cousin really likes minecraft. He comes over and spends time with me every now and then. When he does, we usually play minecraft, as it is one of the few games I actually like. Anyway, ...
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How can I get Apache on OSX 10.8 to serve up a directory under a user home directory?
There might be more than one problem here, but I got my Mac back from the shop after the hard drive was failing, and the new hard drive reproduced my home directory but not httpd.conf.
Since I have ...
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GUI tool for presenting connectivity status on a firewalled network with port blocks etc
The Israeli railway company has recently started a project of wireless LAN availability on its lines. Now, it's all in the flakey stages, sometimes things are up and sometimes they aren't; sometimes ...
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Block access to certain applications on certain internet connections
I have two internet connections, a LAN and a 3G modem on a Windows 7 machine.
The LAN is connected to a Edimax router which is conneted to the ISP (with their own modem).
Now, the Edimax router is ...
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Route problems with OpenVPN through a local Astaro firewall
I am trying to connect to a OpenVPN server on my Windows 7 desktop though my Astaro (ASG) Firewall. I got it setup and can connect just fine but I can't surf the web. I can ping websites like ...
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Blocking/traffic-shaping of an Elastic-IP URL
I'm interested in block or traffic-shaping connections made from my system to a host given by a URL.
The problem is that the URL is re-mapped to a different IP address every several minutes (I ...
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Public - Private networks behind NAT Modem using OpenVPM – Shorewall
I have been asked to configure a firewall between the public and private parts of a network for a small UK charity. The only imposed requirements is that the firewall must allow access using VPN into ...
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Cannot properly use Gigabit LAN, firewall & switch, home network
I have a netgear prosafe 8 port vpn gigabit firewall and a netgear prosafe gigbit 8 port switch on my home LAN plus a UBEE cable modem. The connectivity of these devices are as follows... ...
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Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Block certain IP's on port 21
Windows by default blocks all IP's. I think I made it so that now my advanced firewall is allowing all IP's, but when I add a block rule it doesn't actually block the certain IP. I am using FileZilla ...
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Lync client 2010 and VPN firewall rule
I am running Lync client 2010 (4.0.7577.4598) on Windows 7 x64. The server for this is a corporate one, and in parallel I use a Juniper VPN to access the corporate intranet and other resources.
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Soluto installation fails with “Check your internet connection or firewall settings”
A few days ago, I wanted to install Soluto. The installation failed with this error message:
Check your internet connection or firewall settings!
Because everything was fine with my connection, ...
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None of the clients of LogMeIn Hamachi mesh-network are reachable
For some reason my Hamachi network stopped working. Here is what I have
Version of the Hamachi client is 2.1.0.122
It's "Mesh" network.
I have 7 clients, 3 of them are online right now.
All clients ...
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Prompted to accept incoming network connections for an application defined in firewall
Each time I boot, I am prompted whether I want to accept incoming connections for the application.
I have already added manually the application to
System Preferences -> Security & Privacy ...
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Allow only HTTP/HTTPS comunication with Agitum Outpost Security Suite Free
Hi I use Agitum Outpost Security Suite Free and I would like allow only HTTP(80) a HTTPS(443) protocols for IN/OUT and also allow local ports for Oracle database, etc.
I try use Network Rules -> ...
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How do you add a MAC-based routing whitelist with DD-WRT and the OpenVPN client?
I have an OpenVPN client set up on my DD-WRT home router which maintains a VPN into my workplace.
Slight problem: I don't want random lusers who access my wireless AP to have access to my company's ...
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Can ipmasq and ufw be used together?
If both ufw and ipmasq manipulate iptables, can I use ipmasq for a quick easy setup and then use ufw afterwards to add security or will the two just trample all over the iptables "stuff"?
I'm playing ...
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wvMaxima Error: “Not Connected To Maxima” on Windows
Whenever I try to do anything with it, Maxima gives the error:
Not Connected To Maxima
I've looked around, but I couldn't figure out how to fix this on Windows. The only results I got were for ...
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Can you use the Windows 7 firewall to close ports over VPN?
I use VPN connection (specifically ipredator) for browsing over unsecured WiFi connections from my laptop (in coffee shops, etc.) - but at the other end of the VPN connection, all my ports are open to ...
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The OS X firewall causes certain applications to hang, only while AirPort is connected. How do I find the cause of this problem?
I'm experiencing three strange problems on OS X (Snow Leopard), which only appear while I am connected to a wireless network over Airport.
The "Security" tab in System Preferences takes about 1 ...
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How to set up port forwarding and firewall settings for torrents using Transmsission on Mac OSX 10.5.8 with Netgear Wireless Router DG844GT?
I have picked up bits of advice here and there on the internet and got someway through this tortuous exercise (after it took 18 hours to download the first torrent I tried yesterday - magnet-link for ...
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Allowing a port through my firewall doesn't work
I've been trying to forward port 1604. When I disable my firewall canyouseeme.org says the port is open. When I turn it back on, it says it doesn't work.
I have port 1604 allowed in my my firewall ...
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configure Sophos UTM 120 (v9.0) to run with Bit Torrent Sync
Okay so I'm at a loss on this
I've put all my clients on the inside of the network on the same listening port
then i've added a firewall rule saying internal network -> BTSync port -> any
and i'm ...
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How to see which program is sending malicious output traffic with ZoneAlarm?
I recently installed ZoneAlarm on my PC and in computer protection I see some output traffic has been blocked. However, I can't see which program is sending that traffic. How can I identify the ...
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can firewall send RST packets in response to a TCP SYN?
I used tcpdump to capture packets on a host 6.23.33.44 when a program on it sends some TCP packets, these TCP packets are crafted using raw socket. So, actually there is no tcp connection between ...
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Windows 7 Firewall whitelist rules IF(WIFI.ID == “myWifi”)
The Background:
So I have that backup internet connection with 200mb limit (my phone can do tethering so my PC sees new wifi network called "BackupConnection")...
I'm using VMware Player to work on ...
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I'm receiving an unusual error when I open up Windows Firewall
Today, when I tried double clicking Windows Firewall through Control Panel, it wouldn't open the window. I also searched for Windows Firewall and was able to access Windows Firewall with Advanced ...
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Block IPv6 with windows firewall when connected to VPN
I found an article on how to block IPv6 with windows firewall but will this work when connected to a VPN? Dosn't the VPN tunnel through the firewall?
F.eks if I add these rules to windows firewall:
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Import Export specific Windows Firewall Rule
How do I Export and Import specific Window Firewall rule (both Inbound and Outbound) ?
I can do Import / Export policy but it will use ALL rules not specific rule. Same with Export List, it can ...
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Windows Vista SP2 firewall blocks ports again
My System is using all available updates / patches.
I am developing of server software which open a specific TCP port, so the Vista firewall asks for permission which I grant.
Later I start a ...
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Windows 7 Security setup with firewall
Sorry if this is a repeat, but I have been searching the forums and haven't found an exact answer for my question.
I have had some security concerns on my home network lately so I decided to take a ...
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Redirect a URL Reqeuest passing through Palo Alto Firewall?
There's a small problem with my network in that, when phones/tablets are connected to our wireless routers here, they cannot access the mail server. Outside of our network, they can access it fine.
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Remotely managing Hyper-V 2012 firewall in workgroup
I'm trying to manage my workgroup Hyper-V 2012 machine from my domain joined Win8 Pro client (Server Essentials 2012 domain for which the server is offline - waiting to be restored to the hyper-v ...
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what mechanism does personal firewall (e.g. Online Armor) use to block domains?
Online Armor has a config interface where blocked domains may be specified with wildcards, and it does seem to block them at least for loading pages in browser. But my question is, how exactly does it ...
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How can I view the web accessed through the firewall?
My company has a flash application with dynamically updating content. From what I can tell—I, of course, do not have the source code for the flash application—the flash application uses a type of GET ...
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How to use sSMTP with CSF?
If CSF (ConfigServerFirewall) is off I can send mail using sSMTP (SimpleSMTP) (via Gmail), but when I turn on CSF, sSMTP doesn't send mail, it just hangs.
When I use watch netstat -a then try to send ...
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Can I setup a LAN Proxy for Linux on Windows 2003 server while it is connected to another proxy
I have a windows domain. Computer A is the proxy Server. Computer B (Windows 2K3) connects to internet via Computer A (Password Protected). Now I have Computer C (Ubuntu server 12.10) on the same ...
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VPNing into local home network
I have a FVS338 Netgear firewall. Am I able to VPN into it and then access my local network with a remote desktop connection?
Also, how do I get the initial VPN connection?
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DNS not working on Host Only - NAT firewall
I am setting a private network connected to a firewall that filters the access to internet.
So far I have a ubuntu virtual machine (the firewall) with two interfaces, host only and NAT, also there is ...
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Win7 firewall does not respect inbound rules
The win7 firewall blocks port 9000 tcp even if I set the inbound rules. What could be the problem?
