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Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Simplied for Network Pro

Encapsulation is a kind of  mechanism that transport packets of one type of protocol within another protocol. The protocol that is been carried is called as the Passenger Protocol , and the protocol that is used for carrying the passenger protocol is called as the Transport Protocol .

Cisco ASA: What is NAT Control ?

Every product vendors have their own implementation of NAT and terminologies related to it like " Hide-NAT " is associated with Checkpoint firewall while " MIP, DIP & VIP "are associated with Juniper firewall like wise NAT-Control is associated with Cisco PIX/ASA firewall, it's an Cisco way of NAT implementation and understanding NAT-Control concept is highly crucial if you have to deal with PIX/ASA firewall.

The Concise Guide to Proxies

In legal term doing proxy is a crime but in IT space it is a security measure, there are various usage and types of proxies.

Load Sharing Vs Load Balancing for Dummies

The term load balancing and load sharing are used interchangeably which is not correct. The overall functioning overlaps with each other but at one stage there is one significant difference. The reason for usage of interchangeability is due the mechanism deployed at various context and term associated with them such HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, NAT or DNS based load sharing, equal/unequal cost path load sharing, ether channeling, reverse proxy, round robin, weighted queue etc. Let take look at below explanation.