Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 11:12, dwain wrote: > >> When I turn my firewall off I can see the other computers on my >> network, When I turn the firewall on, I can't. Does someone have a >> solution to this problem on how I can use my firewall and still be able >> to see my network with a firewall or some other setting? >> > > > You said you had a router connected to a DSL modem to run your network. > > I assume you are turning on your Linux firewall... why? > > What you are telling linux is that "you are connected to the internet (not an > internal network" and therefore protect me from everything using the > firewall". You just shut yourself off from your own network. > > Almost all routers these days are very good firewalls and I would bet that > you > don't have the firewalls on your Windows machines turned on. > > But in any event, if you want to run the linux firewall, then you are going > to > have to open up a lot of ports in order to talk to the rest of the network. > So you are defeating the purpose here of the firewall. > So my router firewall is taking care of the internet part of the network? How can I check to make sure this is happening?
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