Routing & Firewalls

This section contains several articles that will help you to protect your computers from intruders on the Internet and also allow you to get more flexibility by using VPNs. We even have an article for SOHO users that will help them connect all their computers over a single DSL or CableModem connection without having to pay a higher monthly fee.

To start things off right you should have a good understanding of TCP/IP that most common of networking protocols and the lifeblood of the Internet.

We have a very thourough tutorial on Firewall types and usage, the Firewall Breakdown. This tutorial should give you all you need to make a good decision on the amount of security you need to protrect your busines.

For those of you with Cisco equipment, an entire section has been created for details on Cisco Access Control Lists, Cisco IOS, and eventually many other Cisco Tools such as EIGRP, RIP, Compression, and NAT.

Article last reviewed: 05/04/2004

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