Routing is the process of moving packets across a network from one host to a another. It is usually performed by dedicated devices called routers.
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Access to a router's GUI
During a recent visit to a coffee shop, I noticed that they hadn't bothered changing their default user name and password for their router.
I realise that someone could log on and be annoying to ...
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Public DMZ network architecture
Years ago, when I was a student, a network security professor taught me in a class what a DMZ is. The architecture he used in his slides was similar to this one:
Now that I got employed, my boss, a ...
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How is Tor secure?
If Tor is open source and thus its process of concealing your IP is known, then how does it keep anything secure? Couldn't someone look at the source code and figure out how to reverse the routing ...
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incoming packets in server
I have enabled iptables logging for packets coming from the outside
-A INPUT ! -s 192.168.218.0/24 -j LOG
Now i am seeing lots of incoming packets from unknown addresses
Jun 5 14:54:56 localhost ...
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1 PIX firewall, 2 routers, 2 switches. Please answer a couple questions about hack lab
I bought a bunch of cisco equipment for a project and I got
1 PIX firewall
2 switches
and 2 routers
This is my plan for a topology but I am new at this so I need help.
I am basing this off the ...
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What does a switched network protect us from? What does it not protect us from?
There seems to be some misconceptions regarding what a switched network will protect us from, and what technologies/precautions a secure environment requires when segmenting trusted users from hostile ...
