This lesson covers firewalls.
Objectives and Skills
editObjectives and skills for the firewalls portion of Network+ certification include:[1]
- Given a scenario, install and configure a basic firewall
- Types of firewalls
- Host-based
- Network-based
- Software vs hardware
- Application aware/context aware
- Small office/home office firewall
- Stateful vs stateless inspection
- UTM
- Settings/techniques
- ACL
- Virtual wire vs routed
- DMZ
- Implicit deny
- Block/allow
- Outbound traffic
- Inbound traffic
- Firewall placement
- Internal/external
- Types of firewalls
Readings
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editLesson Summary
edit- There are many implementations of software based Firewalls, some of the most popular are: Netfilter (iptables), ipfirewall and PF[2]