Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > Thu, 21 Jun 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Kenneth Schneider wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:00 +0100, Robert Best wrote: >>>>>> It is a Speedtouch ADSL modem. Don't know about firewall >>>>>> capabilities. >>> The "firewall capabilities" used by most of these modems is called NAT >>> which stands for Network Address Translation ( there are other features >>> available ). What this basically does is prevent an outside connection >>> to an inside PC because there is no direct access via an outside IP >>> address to an internal IP address. When you request an outside >>> connection, lets say a connection to a web site, the modem automagically >>> provides a temporary connection for you and drops it when the request >>> has ended ( the web page has been loaded ). >> Yes, exactly. I've never understood the Wild Eyed(tm) insistence on a >> firewall, as I imagine there very few installations where a user's computer >> is directly on the Internet these days. I always run behind a router, >> and thus don't need a firewall. If you have your cable modem plugged >> into a switch or router (ie, if your computer is on a 192.168 network), >> you don't need a firewall. And yet I can't get Windows to stop complaining >> about the fact I don't have the firewall turned on. > > My router has it's default route set to my PC, so I get all sewer > overflow from the wasteland, on purpose. I hate it when stupid > things do not work because of over-zealous 3th party gadgets.
Yes, not to say there aren't always exceptions, but I'm still willing to bet firewalls, for many people, have caused more problems than they have solved. > For XP btw: > Control Panel::Security Center::Change the way windows alerts me > Uncheck firewall. Excellent! Never saw that setting. Even after you pointed it out, it took me several minutes of looking around to see the link for it. > Theo (whishing he didn't (have to) know these things) Some of us are glad! I use XP for work, but moved away from Windows almost a year ago on my personal machine. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
