The Airport Extreme Base Station DOES have the firewall protection
built into it. The older Airport (Graphite) Base Station does NOT have
this protection (keep in mind this one is the first generation of ABS),
but it does have a NAT server, which provides some protection. I am not
sure about the Snow models. Perhaps one of the owners of these models
can check.
The new Airport Express DOES have firewall protection as well.
Jerry
p.s. Even with firewalls on, you can still play online games, you just
have to open the firewall up to allow the back and forth access through
the port the game is using, in the same way we had to open up a port to
use iChat and iTunes with the firewall built into OS-X.
On Jun 12, 2004, at 11:23 AM, John Stone wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Henri wrote:
>>
>> What exactly would be the restrictions on just hooking the modem up
>> to the
>> airport? His network would be safe from external attacks, unless they
>> got into the airport, but he'd not be able to play online games or run
>> servers at home?
>>
>> Hen
>
>
> Why can't he play online games or run servers at home? (We'll forget
> the fact, for the moment that in the Insight user agreement it says
> you will not run servers......) You can can port forward to allow
> access to servers...., and routers really don't slow things down
> appreciably for gaming...
>
> Are we for sure that any Airport or Airport Express has a firewall in
> it? I'm curious as I'm thinking of getting an AE to replace my
> router....
>
> Best,
>
> John
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