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Firewall tutorial start to finish
I own a windows 7 desktop and a windows 10 laptop. I want to learn about networking and firewall rules, in depth. There are many tutorials out there that tell you how to accomplish a single task under certain conditions, like adding a firewall exception for a certain program. But I have never felt that I really understood what I was doing with these things.
There are certain facts that all guides, even Microsoft's guides, seem to take for granted. For instance, there is the concept of a "network" in Windows. If you go to the networking control panel, you may see one or more "networks" listed. But are these hardware? Are these software? Could be either, it seems. There is a "network" for the Ethernet card, but also one for the WiFi. But ALSO one for the VPN, which is pure software. What, more precisely, is a "network"? How is the thing on your computer called a "network" the same or different from the thing Microsoft calls a "home network"? I want to find out.
Are there any guides or books that explain this from first principles? I don't plan to be Microsoft Certified, so I don't want to read a tome, but I want to know something more than a quick tutorial.
I want to learn about firewall rules, routing rules, etc. to play with how some of my programs use my VPN.
Googling "Windows networking guide" is little help. It mostly points me to out-of-date stuff, and mostly it's not really in-depth. Just stuff like "setting up a home network."
Thanks,
Mike