Firewalls have become the Internet equivalent of a condom. “Don’t have hex without a firewall!” is the mantra for every security issue, from keeping out crackers to minimizing the threat of Melissa.

I just started messing with QoS my new DD-WRT router. I see that you can set bittorrent to a lower priority, but since I set my bittorrent to go to a random port every time I start uTorrent, how will ...

When it comes down to it, IPv4 port forwarding really only exists because NAT exists. IPv6 removes the need for NAT entirely in a home lab situation, which changes the problem in an important way: ...