How This Book Is Organized

SunScreen 3.2 Administrator's Overview contains the following chapters and appendices:

• Chapter 1, SunScreen Overview provides a brief overview of the SunScreen product, including operating system and hardware requirements and compatibility.

• Chapter 2, SunScreen Concepts discusses security considerations, administration, security policy, and proxies.

• Chapter 3, Packet Filtering explains stateful packet filtering, policy versions, interfaces, administration, security policy, proxies, and rules.

• Chapter 4, Common Objects describes the components or data objects used in making up the rules for a security policy.

• Chapter 5, Administration describes the types of administration possible, including information on remote administration, local administration, centralized management of groups of Screens, and creating common objects and policies for multiple Screens.

• Chapter 6, Encryption, Tunneling, and Virtual Private Networks describes encryption and decryption, how SunScreen uses encryption, and setting up and using a virtual private network.

• Chapter 7, Network Address Translation contains information on NAT rules, static and dynamic NAT, and examples of NAT.

• Chapter 8, High Availability describes high availability (HA), developing a high-availability (HA) policy, how HA works, and configuring HA.

• Chapter 9, Authentication discusses user authentication, authorized users, administrative users, proxy users, details of RADIUS user authentication, and SecurID authentication.

• Chapter 10, Proxies describes SunScreen proxies including how proxies work, proxy user authentication, the FTP proxy, the HTTP proxy, the SMTP proxy, and the Telnet proxy.

• Chapter 11, Logging contains information on packet logging, log file locations, configuring traffic log size, retrieving and clearing logs, log statistics, inspecting and browsing logs, enhancement, and log macros.

• Appendix A, Migrating From Earlier SunScreen Firewall Products contains a table comparing the commands from SunScreen EFS and SunScreen SPF-200 to the equivalent commands used in SunScreen 3.2.

• Appendix B, Configuration Editor Reference documents the command-line interface.

• Appendix C, Services and State Engines lists the services and state engines supported by SunScreen.

• Appendix D, Error Messages lists the error messages generated by SunScreen.

• Glossary lists the terms and their definitions used in the SunScreen documentation.