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Network Address Translation - NAT

The Network Address Translation Table

After that simple and informative introduction to the NAT concept, it's time to find out more about how it works and this is where the NAT table comes in. The Network Address Translation (NAT) Table…

Palo Alto Networks

How to Register a Palo Alto Firewall and Activate…

This article explains how to register and activate your Palo Alto Firewall Appliance to obtain technical support, RMA hardware replacement, product updates, antivirus updates, wildfire, antispam upda…

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

Creating a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Attack. Und…

Part two of our Cross-site scripting (XSS) series shows how easy it is to create & execute a XSS attack, helping readers & network security engineers understand how XSS attacks work and how t…

SASE & SD-WAN Networks

SD-WAN is the Emerging, Evolving Solution for the…

A lot has changed in how people work during the past twenty years. Co-working spaces, mobility, and the cloud now are common. Businesses are spread out and branch offices are empowered. This new fun…

Cisco Switches

Password Recovery / Password Reset Procedure for…

This article shows how to reset a password on a Cisco Catalyst 3750-X (stacked or single unit) and Cisco Catalyst 3560-x switch without losing its startup configuration. The Cisco password recovery p…

Windows Servers

Free Webinar: Troubleshooting & Fixing Microsoft…

Users working with Hyper-V Virtualization would be interested to know that Altaro is hosting a free webinar on the 25th of February 2016 at 4pm CET / 10am EST. Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Manageme…

Subnetting

IP Subnetting - Part 1: The Basic Concepts

When we subnet a network, we basically split it into smaller networks. For example, when a set of IP Addresses is given to a company, e.g 254 they might want to "break" (the correct term is "partitio…

Cisco Routers

MPLS Case Study: Why Route Summarization is not R…

MPLS generates Implicit Null label (The Implicit NULL label is the label that has a value of 3) for directly connected interfaces and for the summary routes. Label Switch Router (LSR) generates this…

Cisco Wireless

Cisco Wireless Controllers (WLC) Datasheets Avail…

We would like to inform our readers that Firewall.cx has just made available as a free download all of Cisco's Wireless Controller Datasheets. The datasheets provide valuable infomation for all curr…

Cisco Routers

Cisco Router Modes

One of the greatest perhaps features of Cisco routers is that most commands used in the IOS software they run on, are identical across multiple platforms. For example, commands for configuring a giga…

IP Protocol

IP Protocol - Part 1: Binary & The Internet Proto…

To understand the Internet Protocol, we need to learn and understand Binary. It is very important to know and understand Binary because part of the IP protocol is also the "Subnetting" section which…

Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)

How To Change & Configure An IP Address or Set to…

Not many users are aware that Windows 7 provides more than one way to configure a workstation’s network adaptor IP address or force it to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server. While the most popul…