Glossary of Networking Terms
SonicWALL ADConnector - A SonicWALL application for integrating SonicWALL Content Security Manager filtering policies with Microsoft Active Directory groups and users.
application filtering - A
content filtering (CF) - A method of screening Web pages and email messages to exclude specified users from access to them, using special filtering policies. The policies use a variety of exclusion criteria including character string matching or source IP address matching. Additionally, the policies contain priority levels, indicating sensitivity of content.
Content Security Manager (CSM) - A SonicWALL Internet content and application filtering solution that enhances security and employee productivity, optimizes network bandwidth and mitigates legal liabilities.
default gateway - A device on an internetwork that forwards packets to another network.
DNS - Domain Name System, a hierarchical naming system that resolves a domain name with its associated IP address. A DNS server looks up the name of a computer and finds the corresponding IP address. This allows users to access hosts using friendly text- based names instead of IP addresses. These names are called fully qualified domain names (FQDN).
hardware failover - The capability of a
IP address - Internet Protocol Address, a
LAN - A Local Area Network is typically a group of computers located at a single location, and is commonly based on the Ethernet architecture.
packet - A unit of information transmitted over the internet or within any TCP/IP network. Packets have a header, which contains information about the source, destination, and protocol to be used for the data, and a body, which contains the data being transmitted.
private IP address - An IP address for a resource in your network that is not known or published outside the zone (for example LAN) where it is located.
public IP address - An IP address for a resource in your network that is published outside your network to the WAN.
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