On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 03:48 PM, Andrew Rodger wrote:
On 14 May 2004, at 16:28, Marcus Roberts wrote:
It's not the most sophisticated protection in the world, but it does offer excellent protection.
The only problem of course is that certain applications that used to work will not work so well, e.g. video conferencing, peer-to-peer software, etc.
Thanks for this Marcus. It was the internal mapping by the router which I could not get a grip of but it is now much clearer. The question now is, do I use the hardware NATS firewall in the router or do I use the OSX firewall? Or both for double security?
You'll have to use the NAT because that's how the wireless access point will assign IP addresses to your computers. You can open up access to through the NAT by doing port forwarding, but you can only forward each port to a single computer. E.g. if you wanted to run a web server, you would get the NAT router to forward port 80 the computer running the web server software - but you can only choose to forward to one computer.
You might as well run the OSX firewall too, but to be honest, OSX has so few network ports open by default, you're unlikely to see much difference anyway.
Cheers
Marcus
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