If he was to put a firewall between pc01 and pc02 he can stop the traffic.. he can download a windows's firewall , like blackice or zonealram, but your right he can't. I though he had a firewall between pc01 and pc02...
-----Original Message----- From: Maciej Soltysiak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:25 AM To: Brian Cc: 'Arindam Haldar'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Windows networking > How will they communicate, netbios is a bridging protocol , were are not > bridging here, we are routing. Please explain how they will be able to > communicate with each other? PC01 - PC02 -- ROUTER -- PC03 - PC04 You can stop PC01 and PC02 from seeing PC03 and PC04 packets. And vice versa. You can not stop PC01 seeing PC02 packets. PC01 and PC02 will see netbios broadcasts, will send and receive udp name resolution, will use TCP 139 for transfers. You can not stop the packets appearing on the left side of the diagram with your router. You can only stop forwarding them from left to right side. Regards, Maciek
