Re: Firewall Suggestions
From: David (davidwnh@adelphia.net)
Date: 01/23/03
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From: "David" <davidwnh@adelphia.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:57:51 GMT
Ok this is going along well,
I'm trying to get to the root of your problem because you will more than
likely run into the same thing with most of the personal firewalls. I wish
you had come here before dumping ZA because we could probably have gotten it
going.
The log in delay goes back to the authentication issue. It's either windows
authentication methods or some scheme the developer put in for added
protection. What you need to do when you run into these problems is look at
the firewall logs and they will tell you what traffic is being blocked. It
will mention the ports and whether the traffic is initiated from the other
machine or is a response. I'm guessing you put firewalls on both machines
and that makes things even harder to configure at times. Overall Patty these
personal firewalls are all about the same. Some of their features vary but
adding more functions is not always necessary in your situation unless it's
a home business and you want the additional features for home use. They will
just add more problems overall. If you didn't have the installation problems
that others have had with ZA than it is hard to suggest something else. You
can go back with ZA or something else that someone may have suggested .
Look for ease of use comments, not all the bells and whistles because you
are also behind a router so some of it is unnecessary. And don't worry about
the virus/trojan thing too much, they all will stop them from "calling home"
if they are set up properly and that is what is important. If you worry
about the security thing too much you end up putting all kinds of
conflicting stuff on the machines and you have more problems. If you run
your AV software properly and
don't open unsolicited email out of curiosity then it will get most of them.
Just do frequent backups. And if a virus or trojan gets by I guarantee the
time it takes to clean up infection and maybe reinstall the OS is a lot less
than all the time people waste keeping "this and that" "perfect" solution
they have found up to date.
So get something back on your machines and if the problem surfaces again,
look at the traffic that is being blocked in the logs, post the log info in
here, and someone will be able to get you up and running.
>
> When we first set up ZAP we had to put all the IP addresses for each
> computer in the Trusted Zone to even get them to communicate at all. I am
> guessing that's probably a normal occurrence in most cases. But I still
> don't understand why it would take as much as 5 minutes for the accounting
> software to bring up the log-on screen. The software techies couldn't
> explain it either except to tell me that it used TCP/IP to communicate
> across the network.
>
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