middlebox

middlebox
A device in the Internet that provides transport policy enforcement, such as a firewall.

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  • Interactive Connectivity Establishment — The Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) draft, developed by the IETF s MMUSIC working group, provides a mechanism for NAT traversal, using various techniques. In particular, it is used to allow SIP based VoIP clients to successfully… …   Wikipedia

  • Realm-Specific IP — RSIP also stands for Radar System Improvement Program , see E 3 Sentry. Realm Specific IP is an Experimental IETF framework and protocol intended as an alternative to NAT in which the end to end integrity of packets is maintained.RSIP lets an… …   Wikipedia

  • Network address translation — NAT redirects here. For other uses, see Nat (disambiguation). In computer networking, network address translation (NAT) is the process of modifying IP address information in IP packet headers while in transit across a traffic routing device. The… …   Wikipedia

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  • TCP acceleration — is the name of a series of techniques for achieving better throughput on an Internet connection than standard TCP achieves, without modifying the end applications. It is an alternative or a supplement to TCP tuning.Commonly used approaches… …   Wikipedia

  • Network Address Translation — (NAT) ist in Rechnernetzen der Sammelbegriff für Verfahren, die automatisiert Adressinformationen in Datenpaketen durch andere ersetzen, um verschiedene Netze zu verbinden. Daher kommen sie typischerweise auf Routern zum Einsatz.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cortafuegos (informática) — «Firewall» redirige aquí. Para la película homónima, véase Firewall (película). Esquema de una soy red de computadoras que utiliza un Cortafuegos. Un cortafuegos (firewall en inglés) es una parte de un sistema o una red que está diseñada para… …   Wikipedia Español

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