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Get Safe Online, www.getsafeonline.org/protecting-yourself/
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ARP, Address Resolution Protocol, a protocol that enables discovery of the MAC (hardware) address of a network interface on a remote host using the host’s IP address
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ICMP, Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC), an extension to the Internet Protocol (IP) that allows for the generation of error messages, test packets, and informational messages related to IP. It is defined in STD 5, RFC 792.
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Ricardo Gerardi, An introduction to using tcpdump at the Linux command line, https://opensource.com/article/18/10/introduction-tcpdump
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Wikipedia, Virtual Private Network, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network
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Wikipedia, netfilter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/netfilter
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DMZ – A network segment that contains servers that respond to external requests for web pages and so on but in which no data is stored. All data is stored in a more secure network with another set of firewalls between it and the DMZ.
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Both, David, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Apress, 2018, 375
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Both, David, Real SysAdmins don’t sudo – Book excerpt, www.both.org/?p=960
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Both, D. (2020). Security. In: Using and Administering Linux: Volume 2. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5455-4_17
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