Re: norton firewall and home network, leaktest

foldface_at_yahoo.co.uk
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 05:56:38 -0800

> In my opinion, no, you don't need two firewalls if you have a home network.
> But what do you mean by two firewalls?

2 software firewalls

> If you have a router that does NOT do firewalling, then you'll need to keep
> your software firewalls.

PC1, 2 network cards, 1 to broadband modem, 1 to network hub
pc2, 1 network card linked to hub
Why a hub? I used to have three machines and I can't be bothered to
try and find my old network lead that doesn't need a hub (cross-wired)
  Oddily enough I used to use winroute on the third pc but the pc died
and I though I'd try a -normal- firewall. Main reason for using
winroute was
because setting up networks on non-xp machines was a pain and winroute
made it easy. Perhaps I'll go back.

> The reason, in my opinion, that the leak test connects on the ICS machine is
> because 1) ICS SUCKS in terms of how it's arranged, how easy it is to use,
> and 2) because ICS SUCKS in terms of security.
> If you're using ICS, I'm thinking you're NOT using a router, but I could be
> wrong. Please reply back and tell us your configuration and all.

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