Securing your home network is more critical than ever, as the Internet is a scary place full of terror, and automated tools have made the job of cybercriminals even easier. Setting up a powerful ...

Therefore, I'd generally recommend putting Web servers outside the firewall. Once you set up your firewall, you will undoubtedly receive frequent requests from your users to poke a hole in it and let ...

As some of you know from my last dumb post about mounting the floppy, I am new to Linux. I would like to learn though the feasibility of setting up a Linux machine as a firewall for a dedicated ...

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...

Hmmm, I'd assume i'ts your linux box. Plug your connection from the wall directly into the switch and see if the slow down still exists, if so its prolly your switch, otherwise its prolly your linux ...

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