Re: sharing a firewall?

From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:30:29 +0200

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:19:08 -0700, N. Miller
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>If you are going to run a third party software firewall application,
>disabling ICF might be a good idea; or not. I haven't played with such a
>combination, so I don't know what kind of conflicts that might cause.

Norman, Liz,

the answer depends on how big the risk from inside the network
is, i.e. how often does a guest connect his laptop to your local
network?

In my place the kids give LAN parties. Last time they scanned
all guest computers before connecting them to our network, but
somehow they forgot one. Allow me to skip over the rest of the
lengthy story. (:-)

The Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall is quite good for the
purpose, so I now leave it on even inside the network that is
protected by an also quite good firewall in the DrayTek Vigor
2500 We ADSL router.

Generally I would recommend a router solution over ICS (Internet
Connection Sharing), particularly since a cheap router costs
hardly more than the extra Ethernet adapter you would otherwise
want. Note, however, that the very cheap routers are not good
for intense Internet gaming and also not good for Internet peer
to peer file sharing. I used an SMC 7004 VBR for some time, but
had to give it away, because it just couldn't handle the load.
There was at least one game here that crashed the router
instantly, unless I disabled the firewall in the router, which
is also not a very good idea. But for email and web browsing
most of these cheap routers will probably do just fine.

Hans-Georg 

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