If the security policy requires authentication of basic services, examination of the three-way handshake and does not require breaking of the client/server model, the cutoff proxy is a good fit. However, administrators must be fully aware and understand that a cutoff proxy clearly is not equivale...
As Metcalfe originally designed it, Ethernet was based on three very simple ideas. First, computers would connect through the "ether" (a semi-serious, semi-scientific name for the void of emptiness that separates them) using standard coaxial cable (wires like the ones used in a television ante...
When a fax machine first dials another fax machine, there's a short (typically 15–30 second) period of handshaking where the machines agree on the speed they will use for the transmission. It's always the slower machine that governs the speed so, even if you have a fast group 3 machin...