Re: Protecting Windows ICS gateway PC?
From: Blouis (azul@nic.cz)Date: 05/09/02
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From: Blouis <azul@nic.cz> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 01:31:51 GMT
On Wed, 8 May 2002 22:42:59 +0100, Ian Burley wrote:
> I've deployed a spare old PC as a Windows (98SE) ICS gateway machine
> connected via ADSL always on. It does nothing else and potentially serves
> half a dozen other networked PCs. Does it need a firewall? If so, what is
> recommended (software preferably). And what about the other PCs? All have up
> to date Sophos anti-virus installed.
I used to run a win98SE Internet Connection Sharing gateway machine
for my network before I built my FreeBSD NAT/Firewall that I now
use today.
I used Zone Alarm - Free Version. It should work just fine.
If I remember correctly... I just added the Static IP addy of the
internal NIC cards that belonged to each of the internal computers
I was running. I think its the ADVANCED tab? I dont remember
correctly but if you install Zone Alarm look for the advance tab or
a tab you can click and you get a choice of adding trusted IP's...
choose the one that says IP (I think it was the middle choice?) and
then just enter a NAME for that computer and then enter the Static
IP (ex. 192.168.0.4) and then press okay (or enter) and it should
work... your machines should be able to communicate and share files
with each other AS WELL as communicate with the internet A-OK...
You could also install www.FreeBSD.org on that computer and have it
do the exact same thing... especially if you are only going to use
it as a firewall/NAT... check it out and download and burn it if
you have a burner... if you are interested I know of a great
tutorial that helped me build my FreeBSD NAT/Firewall and I will
post it if you respond within the newsgroup as being a solution you
might take :)
Otherwise, Zone Alarm Free Version should work just fine for you.
:)
BL
Southern California
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> Thanks,
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> Ian
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