"46erjoe" <somebody@spamless.net> wrote in message
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> I'm a newbie when it comes to wireless. I installed a Netgear WGR614
> v.6 router, and eventually got it to work OK. I have only one other
> computer on my home network for now, a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. I can't access the laptop and it can't access my PC when I have my
> Agnitum Outpost v 1.0 freeware firewall acitve on my desk PC. When I
> turn off Outpost, everything works OK. Do I really need Outpost on my
> PC now? Should I turn off Microsoft firewall on my laptop? It's
> already off on the PC.
A wireless hacker can join your network on the wireless side and be all over
the top of your machines wired or wireless if they are not protected
properly. A personal FW/packet filter only allowing traffic between the two
IP(s) used and blocking all other IP(s) on that router should be
implemented.
>
> 2. If netgear installed its own firewall, how do I adjust its
> controls? Outpost would occasionally ASK me if I wanted my computer to
> access certain sites (mostly for updates). I haven't seen any such
> requests yet from Netgear.
And you're not going to see that either as software solutions running on
routers and FW appliances don't have some kind of junk application control
as do so many personal FW/packet filter solutions. The router is to protect
the network or the LAN and the software on the router is not running on the
computer with its O/S, like a personal FW/packet filter.
> I see no icons on my desktop for it. The
> box says it has a double firewall (NAT and SIP), but as I installed
> netgear I don't recall seeing any info on it.
You're not going to see any either.
You should learn something about a NAT router as that is what you have that
providing the protection from the Interne and is protecting the LAN.
..
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-NAT.asp
Here are some other links about FW solutions host based software or
appliance based, not a personal FW/packet filter as those are not FW
solutions.
http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/r...irewalls1.html http://www.more.net/technical/netserv/tcpip/firewalls/
I don't consider NAT to be FW software, it's an *impersonator*. It's only
mapping technology acting in a FW like manner by dropping unsolicited
inbound traffic, no machine behind the router made a solicitation for
traffic from a remote IP and that inbound traffic is dropped by NAT.
Some wireless security stuff
http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/wire...aa112203_2.htm
Duane :)