Software Firewall

So it has a syslog out put and maybe should be using something like Wallwatcher (free) to better organize what you are seeing to help you make determinations or analysis on the network traffic to/from the router.

Duane :)

Below is all I get on the wireless router.

ALLOW:wrapper.3dgamers.com] Source: 192.168.1.3 M>> I hooked up the FR114P to get a look.

If it were me, I would use the wired router as the gateway router, disable DHCP on the wireless router making it a wire/wireless AP switch still using the MAC and whatever else wireless security the can be enabled as it being a wire/WAP switch and plug it into that wire router. The wire computer seems to have better security and FW features than the wireless has like stopping *outbound*.

You can apply the information in the link to your Netgear equipment as the principles of connecting two routers together are the same no matter if they are two wired, two wireless or wire and wireless routes or brand names.

Duane :)

I was actually thinking of wiring the two together, but I didn't think it could be done. I also didn't think about the WAP scenario either. Oh well, live and learn I guess!

Rule of thumb: You ALWAYS need a FW, when connected to ANY net...

It's too difficult to decide when you really don't need one.

Erik

No.

No.

Yours, VB.

ah-ha

I suspect you don't realise what you know

Hm... maybe you're right.

But: if you don't have Windows, but let's say Debian GNU/Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora, FreeBSD or MacOS X (as an example), then it's even easier not to offer network services to the Internet than to implement a firewall.

If you have Windows 2000, then

Only if you have a small network with Windows at home, then it is possible while too complicated for a home user to configure sercurely, I'd say.

Then a small router with included firewall really will help. And of course, to have such a filtering router is not an error and at least a good idea for everybody, so you're not too wrong.

Yours, VB.

There is no firewall on ghotto. It's a UNIX workstation - and it's not running a web server... or any other server. It _does_ have a web browser - three in fact, and from here I can see that one is being used at the moment. Now, what exactly would adding a firewall do?

It took 36 seconds to find out - but if I went over to the keyboard and typed in the command 'netstat -tuan' I'd find the same thing in less than a second. Even windoze supposedly has that command, although the options are different.

I know enough to know that there is more to using a computer than clicking on some icon or URL and "being amazed". They lied to you when they said that even an untrained monkey on crack can use a computer.

Old guy

To appreciate the knowledge involved in all this, try tracing it back to the level of the general user (often, wrongly, indicated by words like stupid, ignorant, dumbo etc, by the high prietsts of ICT)

You can't do it, I suspect.

Again: try to list the knowledge involved in this... examine your own history.

The quote at the bottom, which reads:

They lied to you when they said that even an untrained monkey on crack can use a computer.

The general user (and this isn't limited to computers) has been mis-led into the concept that computers (in this case) require no special knowledge to use. This is not true. But even limited knowledge would help.

And whose fault is that?

Old guy