Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2394 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thu, 21 Jun 2007, by jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

> 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.
For XP btw:
Control Panel::Security Center::Change the way windows alerts me
Uncheck firewall.

Theo (whishing he didn't (have to) know these things)
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