Re: ZoneAlarm Pro and router ?
From: €®ik (no email)
Date: 12/21/03
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:15:15 +0100
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:20:20 -0500, the right honourable "Patty"
<patty15NOSPAM@softhome.net> wrote:
>I have a Netgear router on my home network consisting of 3 computers. I
>don't always run all three computers simultaneously since each has different
>uses for me. Right now, ZAP v3.5 has my Network listed in the firwall zones
>as Trusted. The IP address is the one set up by the router, 192.168.0.0,
>not the IP address assigned by my ISP for connection to the internet. All
>computers can connect to the internet with no problems and all can connect
>to each other. I'm just wondering if that networking IP setting should be
>Trusted or Internet. I've set it to either and it doesn't seem to make any
>difference in how the computers work. Internet Zone Security is set to
>High, Trusted Zone is set to Medium. I'm just wondering what's the best way
>to set the Newtork for best security, should it be Internet or Trusted?.
>ZAP picks Trusted by default. I'm using Windows98SE simple peer-to-peer
>network I have all the IPs for each computer listed in ZAP Zones as
>Trusted. Hope the way I've explained this isn't too confusing.
>
>Btw, I will be upgrading to WinXP in the future on this computer and
>wondering if, with the router, I'll even need ZAP anymore (which is why I
>haven't upgraded it yet) or will the XP firewall will be sufficient? Thanks
>so much for any help.
>
>Patty
>
I think your setup is:
internet->modem/router->switch->3 computers
maybe the switch is IN the router too.
I run ZAP too, and as I understand, the internal net is considered
trusted, and the rest of the world , outside your door, is The
Internet zone.
btw. there is newer version of ZAP.
all your comps have a non-routable address in the 192.168 range, just
like the inside address of your router (?), which is also the def.
gateway for the comps with 192.168 numbers.
Don't go with the FW of winXP. Why trust MS if you don't have to ?
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
if it's a good router/FW, you could take ZAP away, but why should you
?
frgr
Erik
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