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Subject: Re: Firewalls


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Date Posted: 15:47:29 09/21/01 Fri
In reply to: Maladjusted 's message, "Firewalls" on 19:53:28 09/20/01 Thu

Hey hows it going dood! I would say both software and firmware (hardware with software enbeded on it) both have there advantages and disadvantages.

I no that firmware or hardware firewalls are very good when it comes to stop people trying to connecting through trojans. Mainly becouse if you configure them right you can set them up to give you a lan ip address. Which are addresses that never actully see the internet. In other words the ip addresses you are using on your machine may be already in use on the internet. When they try to connect to you they will acctully be connecting to some other guy. Only the routor has a real ip address.

Examples of lan addresses are 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x which is the defailt lan addresses for the linksys routers. That is just one way routers act as a firewall, the more advanced routers have a lot more.

I use zonealarm and im very happy with it, its very configurable. But i no it does miss some stuff, thats y i usally run two software firewalls side by side. And also in addition i run system monitoring software, its like a firewall that you run manually. It dont block out anything but if you think something strange is going on it lets you easyly check out key parts of your system. Good for catching people in the act lol.

In the end i think that it has less to do with if its software or firmware but more about how it was designed, that makes you secure or not.

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