Thu, 21 Jun 2007, by jdarnold@buddydog.org:
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) -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org