Rules, aliases, NAT, virtual IPs, traffic shaping and guest networks.
- Normalization — Traffic normalization adjusts selected packet properties before the final pass or block decision. Global defaults are available under Firewall ›…
- Intrusion Prevention System — The Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) system of Ixolate is based on Suricata(https://suricata.io/) and utilizes…
- Control Plane Shaping — Planes of Operation is a concept to describe and divide the functionality of a network device.
- Rules — Ixolate contains a stateful packet filter, which can be used to restrict or allow traffic from and/or to specific networks as well as influence how…
- Aliases — Aliases are named lists of networks, hosts or ports that can be used as one entity by selecting the alias name in the various supported sections of…
- Interface groups — To simplify rulesets, you can combine interfaces into Interface Groups and add policies which will be applied to all interfaces in the group.
- Network address translation — Network Address Translation (abbreviated to NAT) is a way to separate external and internal networks (WANs and LANs), and to share an external IP…
- Reflection and Hairpin NAT — Because there are not enough available IPv4 addresses, a workaround called NAT (Network Address Translation) was implemented into the IPv4 Standard.…
- Virtual IPs — When using additional addresses for features like NAT or binding services to different interfaces, you can add extra addresses to already defined…
- Advanced settings — In some circumstances people might want to change how our system handles traffic by default, in which case the advanced settings section is a good…
- Traffic Shaping — Traffic shaping (also known as “packet shaping”) is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, lower…
- Bufferbloat (FQ_CoDel) — Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too much data. This occurs because the router…
- Guest network — This how to will explain how to setup a guest network using the captive portal. Guest Networks are widely used to allow guests controlled internet…