Section 16 Book ch. 19 Local Area Networking Flashcards
What command on the command line allows you to see what ports are being used/listening?
Netstat
What does the whoami command do?
Prints out the current user
What is the common way windows file and folder sharing is handled over TCP/IP?
Server Message Blocks
What must be true if all windows computers on a single LAN can automatically see each other?
They are apart of the same workgroup
What you must you have on a remote system to access shared folders?
An account
Does the domain admin have the power to add any computer to the domain?
Yes
What is (SMB) Server Message Blocks?
Windows method for network connectivity
What is SAMBA?
A way for Linux/MACs to communicate with Windows networks
What does it mean to firewall?
To block traffic based on what ever type of criteria
Where should you put a firewall?
At the edge of your network
What is access control list?
Defines what people can and cannot do in terms of their access
What is principle of least privileages
Only give people enough access to do what they need to do?
What are blacklist?
Defining ipaddresses as bad or good, blocking traffic based off of ip address
What is a whitelist?
defining ipaddresses that traffic can only go to
What is a stateless firewall?
Simple firewall that blocks traffic regardless of criteria
What is a stateful firewall?
Will block traffic based on the state of traffic
Ex. if someone request a website fifty times a second
What is a access policy?
One setting that defines how traffic, ipaddress and etc are dictated to go through the network
What is (DMZ) Demilitaried zone?
Defiing the only ipaddress where all traffic from the internet must go to to access your network
What is a Edge/Network firewall?
A firewall at the router
What is a host firewall?
A firewall that sits on the individual computer
What is network discovery?
Query systems, other computers
What is a firewall exception?
Allowing system programs to reach out of your network to the internet
What is port forwarding?
The nat router will give access on some port numbers over the internet
What doe the net command do?
Shows all of the computers on your network and group
What criteria do stateless firewalls block on
port number, time of day , url
What criteria do stateful firewalls block on
actions taking place in the moment like too many pings within a certain time limit
What does the firewall access control list do?
defines what may or may not filter or forward
