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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Firewall Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation. IPv6 IPv6 is the latest version of internet protocol that expands the number of possible IP addresses from the 4.3

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How to eliminate the default route for greater security

Network World

Part of the reason is that many enterprises use an internet perimeter firewall performing port address translation (PAT) with a default policy that allows access the internet, a solution that leaves open a possible path by which attackers can breach security.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades

Network World

Enhanced networking infrastructure brings more IPv6 access As an operating system platform that is used as the basis for enterprise, cloud and even telecom scale deployments, RHEL’s networking stack is of particular importance to users. With this update, you can connect to IPsec VPNs that use IPv6 addressing.” release notes state.

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How to eliminate the default route for greater security

Network World

Part of the reason is that many enterprises use an internet perimeter firewall performing port address translation (PAT) with a default policy that allows access the internet, a solution that leaves open a possible path by which attackers can breach security.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before; if I have, please forgive me.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

I haven't dug through the group policy yet but I imagine that's a likely place for that setting to be pushed to the client. Additionally, I attempted to reenable the service via Group Policy so as not to have to touch all the machines this service was disabled on. Or what action forces a reset with LAN Config running?