Dear readers, I appear to have set a Paranoid Penguin record—six months spent on one article series. (It has consisted of five installments, with a one-month break between the second and third pieces.

It's no doubt that one of the leaders for network equipment is Cisco Systems. Newer Cisco devices are starting to use what Cisco calls its "="" operating="" system"="">, which is a customized flavor ...

One of the exciting new features coming up in the impending release of the brand spanking new Ubuntu 8.04 is the uncomplicated firewall known as ufw. This system will allow straightforward ...

I'm doing a huge paper on firewall & security i have to present at the end of this week to get my graduate diploma ) I'm working like 18 hours a day, i'm not gettin' much sleep. I'm almost done, but I ...

How to enable the firewall in Ubuntu? If you are interesting in protecting your online activities while working on Ubuntu, you may want to consider activating its built-in firewall feature.

The ufw (uncomplicated firewall) represents a serious simplification to iptables and, in the years that it’s been available, has become the default firewall on systems such as Ubuntu and Debian. And, ...

In the world of the Linux operating system and open source software, the iptables firewall provides a full featured and stable packet filtering infrastructure. Commercial-grade capabilities such as ...

I'd like to condense my firewall computer (Astaro) and server (Win2k3) onto the more power efficient server which can easily run both. However, I do not know the security implications and/or network ...