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Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Aim and Scope
1.2 Evaluation Method
1.2.1 Performance Metrics
1.2.2 Hypotheses
1.3 Outline of the Project
2 BACKGROUND
2.1 Working of a Firewall
2.1.1 Packet Inspection
2.2 Types of Firewalls
2.2.1 Packet Filtering Firewall
2.2.2 Circuit Level Gateways
2.2.3 Application Level Gateways
2.2.4 Stateful Multilayer Inspection Firewall
2.3 Linux Iptables
2.4 Firewalls Selection
2.5 Limitations of Firewalls
2.6 Related Work
3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 Requirements
3.2 Experimental steps
3.3 Traffic Classification
3.3.1 Real-time (Online) Evaluation
3.3.2 Off-line Evaluation
3.4 Traffic Duration
3.5 Evaluation Procedure
3.6 Evaluation Tools
3.6.1 Netperf
3.6.2 Iperf
3.6.3 THTTPd
3.6.4 HTTPing
3.6.5 Nmap
3.6.6 Webmin
3.6.7 Wireshark
3.7 Evaluation Metrics
3.7.1 Throughput
3.7.2 Latency
3.7.3 Connection Establishment rate
3.7.4 Connection Teardown Rate
3.7.5 HTTP Transfer Rate
3.7.6 System Resource Consumption
4 EXPERIMENT
4.1 Specifications of computers
4.2 Firewalls Installation
4.2.1 Iptables
4.2.2 Shorewall
4.3 Configuration of Firewalls
4.3.1 Iptables
4.3.2 Shorewall
4.4 Implementation of Evaluation Metrics
4.4.1 Throughput
4.4.2 Latency
4.4.3 Connection Establishment Rate
4.4.4 Connection Teardown Rate
4.4.5 HTTP Transfer Rate
4.4.6 System Resource Consumption
5 RESULTS
5.1 Throughput
5.2 Latency
5.3 Connection Establishment and Teardown Rate
5.4 HTTP Transfer Rate
5.5 System Resource Consumption
5.6 Analysis
6 CONCLUSION
6.1 Future Work
7 BIBLIOGRAPHY
