The administrative programs offer built-in help information. The administrator uses ptelnet to connect to the firewall. After providing a user ID and passing the authentication test the administrator requests a connection to the firewall. If the administrator is authorized to login to the firewall, encryption will automatically be activated. Searches can be based on word, keyword or string.
Administrators can also construct their own hyper-links between topics.
Both spoofmon and synmon are automatically started by portusmon when the system is booted. For example, the IP forwarding and source routing options in the operating system need to be disabled on the firewall. By examining output from the device driver it is able to determine which communication interface received the connection request. If a protected source IP address was received by the wrong communication adapter then the address has been spoofed. When spoofmon is active, ftproxy and tnproxy depend on it for connection information used to detect source IP address spoofing.