On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 Jane25345 at aol.com wrote:
> That reminds me to ask you all..... > > What kind of firewall do we need for a home network of Macs and PCs? > The simple system is to have a single firewall/router conencted to the DSL link. Then the network internally is wide open. This is akin to putting a big guard at the front of the building. It does work most of the time and should be sufficient for a home network. Major issue with it is if you have a wireless network. > > Lastly, what do the folks with Airport do for a firewall? I'm not on airport per se [airport cards, netgear router] but the wireless router itself serves as my front-door firewall. Then I use 128 WEP to encrypt the wireless channel. It's not perfectly secure, but the range isn't stunning as far as I can tell and I don't expect the neighbours to hack in too much. Hen The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
