Category Archives: Networking
Firewall your FreeBSD for Safety’s Sake
Date published: July 20th, 2008
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We all know the Internet can be a dangerous place and in order to be truly safe a computer must not be connected to it. But that puts an immense dent in productivity and the flow of information, so it’s not an option. Of course the flow of information is the important thing and with the proper firewall you can make sure that the data only flows how you want and to whom you want.
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Virtual Private Networking Quick Notes
Date published: July 14th, 2008
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Virtual Private Networking (VPN) is a safe and secure way to transmit sensitive data between two networks or a remote computer and a private network that are connected by the publicly accessible Internet. It’s a great way for employees of a company to be able to access necessary information without having to actually be on the local, secure network. Windows 2000, XP, MacOS X and Vista are all able to utilize various VPN clients to connect to the private networks and some of these options will be presented. Of course FreeBSD can be both the client and the gateway server and that will be discussed as well.