At 12:46 AM 12/16/2005, Richard King typed:
So one can rely on the router in place of say EZ-Armor's firewall? I
know that to get my new wireless XP laptop to see & work with the
old wired 2K desktop, it was necessary to add the router's IP
address range to both machines' firewalls as "good guys" (I
initially thought it was a case of cyber-sulk ;-).
I assume this means some config work on the router, which IMHO would
be trickier than with EZ-Armor.
EZ-Armor I assume is like ZA & others is not a true firewall. It only
helps if you launch an attachment that is calling home [aka shooting
one's self in the foot] but the router blocks almost all attempts at
pinging your system from the outside. Very few firewall apps [if any] do this .
Depending on which router that you're talking about I'm sure that you
can figure out how to configure it besides most of the defaults are
already setup properly for you. Should you have any specific
questions about the router's settings I'm sure that we can assist you
especially if you get one of the major brand names.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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