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- noun Plural form of
middlebox .
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Examples
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We have seen that it was complex to filter out false positives of big downloaders such as monitors and middleboxes and proposed a methodology to do so.
p2pnet news 2010
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This restores the dream of "end-to-end connectivity" destroyed by NAT, firewalls, and other "middleboxes."
TaoSecurity 2008
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This restores the dream of "end-to-end connectivity" destroyed by NAT, firewalls, and other "middleboxes."
TaoSecurity 2008
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Like the first myth, this assumption isn't always true today because of middleboxes such as NATs and firewalls as well as with 802.11 wireless and satellite transmissions.
doggdot.us 2008
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This assumption isn't always true because middleboxes such as network address translators (NAT) and firewalls get in the way of IP communications, and it doesn't always work with 802.11 wireless LANs or satellite links.
doggdot.us 2008
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The problem is that middleboxes such as NATs and firewalls block certain ports and may not allow more than one connection.
Network Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources 2008
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