Re: Configuration of Symantec Client Firewall in home network?

From: Alan Laser (alaser_at_bunkmag.com)
Date: 01/23/04

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    Wow, what an amazing help you were! Thanks for all of your FANTASTIC INFO!

    NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote in message news:<1003kd4bcjqqgda@corp.supernews.com>...
    > Donald Newcomb wrote:
    >
    > > I am currently running the Symantec Client Firewall (v.5.1) on my W2K
    > > (SP4) home computer to protect my dial-up connection to the Internet. The
    > > Symantec AV & firewall software are licensed by my employer to permit
    > > employees to use them at home. In addition to the dial-up connection I
    > > also have a local Ethernet LAN with a couple of laptop computers on the
    > > 192.168.0.X address space, for which I have enabled ICS on the dial-up.
    >
    > Uh, isn't that for home business?
    > Oh, and by the way, internet connection sharing is retarded in my opinion.
    > It doesn't work right, and the way it works is not very good either.
    >
    > >
    > > At this time I can "ping" from a laptop through the ICS dialup to various
    > > Internet hosts, either by name or IP number. However, I don't seem to be
    > > able to make http:// connections as long as the firewall in enabled. If I
    > > disable the firewall then I can surf all I like through the ICS. Of
    > > course, in this day and age, I don't want to be connected without a
    > > firewall.
    >
    > Contact Symantec then. Or, in settings, look for something that has to do
    > with port forwarding, since the host that is sharing to the laptop needs
    > the stuff forwarded to it.
    >
    > >
    > > I've looked at the various Internet Access Control "system wide"
    > > configuration settings and have permitted such things a Windows file
    > > sharing to & from only computers on the 198.168.0.X adapter. However, I
    > > have not yet found the setting combination that allows me to use outbound
    > > http:// through the ICS. I've searched the Symantec support site for the
    > > answer but have not been able to find it.
    > >
    > > Can someone please give me a pointer to a site or FAQ that discusses how
    > > to set up firewall software to protect your system while permitting full
    > > use of ICS.
    >
    > www.symentec.com has tons of useful knowledge base subjects...
    >
    > >
    > > Thanks,

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