See Web filtering.
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- How to Replicate the Fire: HA for Netfilter Based Firewalls
- With traditional, stateless firewalling (such as ipfwadm, ipchains) there is no need for special High Availability HA support in the firewalling subsystem. As long as all packet filtering rules and routing table entries are configured in exactly the same way, one can use any available tool for IP-Address takeover to...
- White papers 2008-08-22
- Design and Implementation of Split TCP in the Linux Kernel
- With all its history of reliable performance, the TCP protocol is known to break down in a situation with high loss and high RTT. A known solution is "Split TCP", where one or a few proxies helper boxes are used to break the end-to-end TCP connection into a few almost...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- NetFilter PC 2.4w build EN-US (Windows)
- NetFilter Family is the pioneer Web content filter on Brazil. It was especially developed for all families. With it, parents can leave their computer free for their children to enjoy the best of Internet. The NetFilter Family service offers a high quality level on Web filtering because of our continuous...
- Software downloads 2005-12-15
- DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response
- High-profile web servers often become the victim of web server overload Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks. Motivations of such attacks range from technical challenge (e.g. script kiddies) to financial profit (e.g. blackmailing the web server's owner). This paper presents the DIADEM Firewall architecture that allows an ISP to protect its customers...
- White papers 2005-12-14
- Torvalds: Put Linux to the test
- Torvalds: Put Linux to the testTorvalds: Put Linux to the testHurray! More crap from the dictator![i]so that any reduction in efficiency can be highlighted sooner.[/i]I've been highlighting the reduction in efficiency for years now. Where the hell has Linus been? Must have finally took notice of my posts...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-30
- When will open source security grow up?
- When will open source security grow up?Linux security products are mainly for babysitting Windows..They are out there..I found some....Ethereal, Snort, Nessus, Tripwire, YaST.. There are a bunch. What is it you want to do? Active directory style policies? If so get eDiretory from Novell.But for everything else try insecure.org.There are...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-28
- Taking the offensive - GPL-Violations.org
- Taking the offensive - GPL-Violations.orgWhen Talk Failshttp://asia.cnet.com/news/software/0,39037051,39221440,00.htma German court found a Dutch firm guilty of violating GPL clauses in May last year. The case was viewed by most industry observers as a landmark ruling for the open-source community.The company, a subsidiary of Sitecom Europe, had distributed a firmware containing software...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-15
- Taking the offensive - GPL-Violations.org
- Doing my evening browsing, I ran across the GPL Violations website, put together by Harald Welte -- one of the heroes of open source (or free software, if you prefer). Welte is a contributor to several projects, including the Netfilter/iptables project that provides the framework for packet filtering, network address...
- Blog posts 2005-03-14
- Survey: Security efforts paying off
- Survey: Security efforts paying offSecurity efforts paying off- Users switching to Linux in droves!Amen.. !I think I'll go to McDonalds for lunch.. they just joined the millions switching!False Security. They only THINK they are safe...Go to your average users computer, and open a cmd prompt.Then run NETSTAT.Sit back and...
- Discussion threads 2004-06-11
- Researchers envision the Linux of routing
- Researchers envision the Linux of routingWhats that..."Researchers developing new open-source software for Internet Protocol routers are hoping that they can do for routing what Linux did for operating systems."Whats that? Create a bunch of zealots that attack Cisco as being a monopoly at every turn, no matter what the...
- Discussion threads 2004-04-19
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