Firewall

[cltbuilder]

I been told I need a firewall? I never heard of this before I got RR. DSL was different?

I thought I knew this stuff at one time. Shit for brains and too many chemicals at work....rotting my mind.

[Y2Buddy]

You should have had one with DSL too actually.

http://www.thisboardrocks.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1942&highlight=firewall

The residential gateway by Dlink is the easiest and least expensive IMO.

[BearBryant]

http://download.com.com/3000-2092-8034258.html?tag=list

it's free and very good

[cltbuilder]

Thanks....and thanks Savio for the link to previous thread

[PantherPaul]

I am setting up a seperate PC in house and will network the two together via a wireless router/firewall. How hard is it to allow PC Anywhere to go through the firewall to access another off site PC?

[PantherMills]

If you use Norton Personal Firewall, it's pretty much seamless. They're made by the same company, Symantec. I'm sure others can be configured, but this configuration is exactly what i use.

[cltbuilder]

Problem time, again.....I downloaded Zone Alarm, but apparently it's not configured to work with applets and chats of that nature. Gay.com is not letting me connect and my roommate is about to explode. I have to turn it off whenever he wants to go online there.

[PantherMills]

The best thing to do would be to somehow upload Zone Alarm to gay.com itself. Then nobody could get on. That way, your roomate might not get so mad knowing nobody's getting on.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Y2Buddy
You should have had one with DSL too actually.

http://www.thisboardrocks.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1942&highlight=firewall

The residential gateway by Dlink is the easiest and least expensive IMO.

It is the least expensive, but it has drawbacks compared to the comparable Netgear and LinkSys. I kept mine anyway. I try to keep the firmware updated.

If you're not a techie for a living, a DLink is fine.

[Y2Buddy]

Yea, I haven't had too much experience with them, just researched some when I put the company on the internet. The only draw back is you need a PC to confirgure it, I only have a mac at home now, but once it's configure, you don't have to touch it.

[Fred]

Originally posted by PantherMills
The best thing to do would be to somehow upload Zone Alarm to gay.com itself. Then nobody could get on. That way, your roomate might not get so mad knowing nobody's getting on. SHUT UP! :smash: Don't be telling him that! Do you want every homosexual in the Carolinas whoremoans raging? Gay.Com is a God-send; my Mecca! If he messes up Gay.Com Panther, you're gonna have to start putting out. And you'd better be damned good at it! :mad:

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Y2Buddy
Yea, I haven't had too much experience with them, just researched some when I put the company on the internet. The only draw back is you need a PC to confirgure it, I only have a mac at home now, but once it's configure, you don't have to touch it.

I configure mine via a web browser. You can't configure it via web browser on the Mac?

[PantherMills]

I don't have a problem with homosexuals or their hormones raging, it's when they act upon it that's a perversion . And before you start going yada yada yada yada, I'm not here to debate you, that's for R&R, so please, take it over there. :)

[NormanNiner]

If you're running Windows XP, a firewall is already there. It's an option for you to turn on.

[cltbuilder]

I only mentioned that website because it uses an applet window for chat. I am sure there are others, I just haven't run across any others in my daily usage.

[Y2Buddy]

Originally posted by mathmajors
I configure mine via a web browser. You can't configure it via web browser on the Mac?

No, you can only do it from a serial port. I have Win98 Virtual PC, but I've never tried to connect to the firewall with. No need really, yes, I'm an AOL user. Just can't see paying the 50 bucks. If I had more people in the house who wanted to use the internet at the sametime, yea, but my dial-up is pretty fast. I have a T2 line or whatever at work, and there's just not THAT big a difference at home browsing web sites.

Originally posted by PantherMills
I don't have a problem with homosexuals or their hormones raging, it's when they act upon it that's a perversion . And before you start going yada yada yada yada, I'm not here to debate you, that's for R&R, so please, take it over there. :)
The way he mentioned it would be no different than me saying my wife's soapopra.com won't do this or that, and I don't want a bunch of women not getting there fix of Days of our Lives. Just relax, it's all good.:cool:

[PantherMills]

Originally posted by Y2Buddy


The way he mentioned it would be no different than me saying my wife's soapopra.com won't do this or that, and I don't want a bunch of women not getting there fix of Days of our Lives. Just relax, it's all good.:cool:

y2, your quote of me was my response to Fred, not cltbuilder. Just wanted you to get your facts straight. :)

[mathmajors]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Y2Buddy
[B]

No, you can only do it from a serial port. I have Win98 Virtual PC, but I've never tried to connect to the firewall with. No need really, yes, I'm an AOL user. Just can't see paying the 50 bucks. If I had more people in the house who wanted to use the internet at the sametime, yea, but my dial-up is pretty fast. I have a T2 line or whatever at work, and there's just not THAT big a difference at home browsing web sites.

Given that you don't see a difference between browsing at home and at work, I'd say you have an extremely taxed T1 at work. All the non-high schools in the CMS system have T1's and no one complains about the internet speed (and everything runs through a proxy server, too).

[Y2Buddy]

Oh, there's a difference, just not what I think I should spend an extra $30/month for.

[jazzredcat]

I'm not exactly sure of what a firewall is. It prevents information
from over running into your site; prevents unwanted cookies??

Anyhow, if I download[whatever ya call it]a firewall, might I lose
access to a website?

[mathmajors]

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