SonicWALL 5.8.1 Manuale Utente

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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
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EAPOL packet flood
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Weak WEP IV 
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SMTP Authentication - SonicOS Enhanced supports RFC 2554, which defines an SMTP 
service extension that allows the SMTP client to indicate an authentication method to the 
server, perform an authentication protocol exchange, and optionally negotiate a security 
layer for subsequent protocol interactions. This feature helps prevent viruses that attack the 
SMTP server on port 25.
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Generic DHCP Option Support - SonicOS Enhanced supports generic DHCP 
configuration, which allows vendor-specific DHCP options in DHCP server leases.
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DHCP Server Lease Cross-Reboot Persistence - DHCP Server Lease Cross-Reboot 
Persistence provides the ability to record and return to DHCP server lease bindings across 
power cycles. The SonicWALL security appliance does not have to depend on dynamic 
network responses to regain its IP address after a reboot or power cycle. 
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Custom IP Type Service Objects - SonicOS Enhanced supports Custom IP Type Service 
Objects, allowing administrators to augment the predefined set of Service Objects.
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Dynamic Address Objects - SonicOS Enhanced supports two changes to Address 
Objects: 
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MAC - SonicOS Enhanced will resolve MAC AOs to an IP address by referring to the 
ARP cache on the SonicWALL. 
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FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN), such as ‘www.sonicwall.com’, will be 
resolved to their IP address (or IP addresses) using the DNS server configured on the 
SonicWALL. Wildcard entries are supported through the gleaning of responses to 
queries sent to the sanctioned DNS servers. 
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Virtual Access Points - A “Virtual Access Point” (VAP) is a multiplexed instantiation of a 
single physical Access Point (AP) so that it presents itself as multiple discrete Access 
Points. To wireless LAN clients, each Virtual AP appears to be an independent physical AP, 
when there is actually only a single physical AP. Before Virtual AP feature support, wireless 
networks were relegated to a One-to-One relationship between physical Access Points and 
wireless network security characteristics, such as authentication and encryption. For 
example, an Access Point providing WPA-PSK security could not simultaneously offer 
Open or WPA-EAP connectivity to clients. If Open or WPA-EAP were required, they would 
need to have been provided by a separate, distinctly configured APs. This forced WLAN 
network administrators to find a solution to scale their existing wireless LAN infrastructure 
to provide differentiated levels of service. With the Virtual APs (VAP) feature, multiple VAPs 
can exist within a single physical AP in compliance with the IEEE 802.11 standard for the 
media access control (MAC) protocol layer that includes a unique Basic Service Set 
Identifier (BSSID) and Service Set Identified (SSID). This allows segmenting wireless 
network services within a single radio frequency footprint of a single physical access point 
device. 
VAPs allow the network administrator to control wireless user access and security settings 
by setting up multiple custom configurations on a single physical interface. Each of these 
custom configurations acts as a separate (virtual) access point, and can be grouped and 
enforced on single or multiple physical SonicPoint access points simultaneously. You can 
configure up to eight VAPs per SonicPoint access point.
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Layer 2 Bridge Mode - SonicOS Enhanced supports Layer 2 (L2) Bridge Mode, a new 
method of unobtrusively integrating a SonicWALL security appliance into any Ethernet 
network. L2 Bridge Mode is similar to the SonicOS Enhanced Transparent Mode in that it 
enables a SonicWALL security appliance to share a common subnet across two interfaces, 
and to perform stateful and deep-packet inspection on all traversing IP traffic, but it is 
functionally more versatile.