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[Current version of 8Signs Firewall is 3.0.37]
What is 8Signs Firewall?
With powerful integrated defense mechanisms, 8Signs Firewall is developed with the security-conscious professional in mind. Mobile professionals, telecommuters and power-users can protect stand-alone computers with the workstation or server versions. Organization-wide networks are guarded against intrusion and alerted of threats with a network version that includes protection for servers and workstations.
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What operating systems are supported?
8Signs Firewall for Workstations can be installed on Windows 9x, Windows ME, NT 4 Workstation, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro.
8Signs Firewall for Servers supports the following operating systems: Windows 9x, Windows ME, NT 4 Workstation, NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003.
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What features are available in the Workstation version?
The following features are present in the Workstation version:
- separate ruleset control for each device
- stateful inspection
- ability to allow or block non-IP per device
- ability to allow or block other IP per device
- basic logging
- email notification of rule hits
- password security
- ability to schedule automatic emailing of the log file
- support for VPN traffic
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What features are available in the Server version?
In addition to the features present in the Workstation version the Server version includes the following features:
- time sensitive rules
- extended logging (configuration changes, etc.)
- Activity Viewer
- support for plug-ins
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What is 'Stateful Packet Inspection'?
Stateful inspection firewalls determine whether packets can get through the firewall based on the protocol, port, and source and destination addresses. For every request that is allowed by the strategy, stateful inspection firewalls open up a limited time window to allow response packets, but ONLY from the same host. Also, by maintaining information about previous packets, stateful inspection firewalls can quickly verify that packets meet the criteria for authorized traffic. This makes stateful inspection firewalls inherently fast.
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I have a PPPOe connection to the Internet, is there anything special I need to do?
If your connection uses PPPoE, you will see a PPPoE adapter listed in the Controls Window. To allow your computer to make a connection to the Internet, you will need to configure this adapter to allow other IP as follows:
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click on the name of the PPPoE adapter in the Controls Window
- click Configuration
- click the Advanced button
- on the Other Protocols tab, uncheck the Block checkbox
- click OK
Once you have completed this step, you can treat this adapter as you would any other Internet adapter by configuring the rules that you require. The firewall settings for the physical network adapter that connects to your DSL modem have no effect, all filtering is done on the PPPoE adapter. |
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Where can I purchase 8Signs Firewall?
Follow this link to the secure online order form. |
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