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Untangle Network Security

By : Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab
Book Image

Untangle Network Security

By: Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Untangle Network Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Untangle Advanced Configuration

At this point, Untangle has the basic configuration that will work for most networks. However, some networks require some more configurations. Any additional interfaces that are installed on Untangle NGFW were not available to be configured during the running of the initial configuration wizard. In this chapter, we will learn how to configure additional interfaces.

In addition, this chapter will teach you about the placement options for Untangle NGFW, and how the traffic is passed through the system. Also, this chapter will show you how to configure an Untangle NGFW hostname and the ports that the Untangle NGFW services run at (such as, the Administration Interface) to allow any internal services that use the same port to work. Also, we will cover Untangle functionality such as router, DNS, and DHCP.

After that, we will cover the concept of Untangle NGFW rules and how they work. Next, we will cover some rules such as port forwarding and NAT. Eventually...