With a hardware or software based firewall, all it is going to do is drop unkown or bad packets. They can be configured to block trojans from going out, but that is a big hassel on adding all the ...

Among the many firewalls available in the security market are router firewalls. Unlike the software firewall, the router firewall attempts and blocks incoming query requests at the server level ...

The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

Fancy doing something more with your home network? Or are you already up and running with a NAS device, a simple server of some kind, or a bunch of smart home gadgets you’d like to get more control ...

Distributed and expanding companies are increasingly using VPN connections to access and share information between offices and branches. We test ADSL firewall routers that are designed for this ...

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

My pfSense box had a storage failure a few months ago and I never replaced it. I'm using my ISP's router combo box thingy but it's lacking in a lot of ways. I also have a 14TB drive that I ...

Foundry Networks and Citrix are two companies planning to use Interop to launch application acceleration tools. Foundry plans to announce a server offload device; Citrix will launch boxes designed to ...

The Yellow Machine P4406 is way more than a NAS—it's also a router, firewall, switch, and Web server—so it packs a lot of bang for the buck. But for anyone unskilled in networking, the rough interface ...

Distributed and expanding companies are increasingly using VPN connections to access and share information between offices and branches. We test ADSL firewall routers that are designed for this ...