Big picture please

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I gather NAT, SPI, SOCKS and explicit proxy servers are all techniques
of tunneling through a firewall.

I wondered if anyone would care to summarise each in a sentence or two
for the java and computer buyer's glossary.

Think of what the novice most wants to know.

1. which is best for which situation?

2. roughly how do they each differ/work.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/firewall.html
and
http://mindprod.com/bgloss/firewall.html


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The link has a lot of pretty pictures you can look at to get the *big*
picture.

http://www.firewall-software.com/firewall_faqs/what_is_a_firewall.html

Duane

 

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Hi,

Roedy Green <look-on@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> I gather NAT, SPI, SOCKS and explicit proxy servers are all techniques
> of tunneling through a firewall.

No.


> I wondered if anyone would care to summarise each in a sentence or two
> for the java and computer buyer's glossary.

Why?

Greetings,
Jens