Re: Frustrating firewall/router issue...
From: nooneimportant (no.spam_at_me)
Date: 02/16/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:17:19 GMT
"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
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> "nooneimportant" <no.spam@me> wrote in
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> > I have a HomeOffice running on a Linksys BEFSX14 Firewall Router(4
> > port wired). For the last month and a half its run great with two
> > machines on the network, one running XP home, and a laptop running
> > XPpro that was connected almost fulltime. I recently did a build for
> > a new PC, running XPpro as well (yes they are two seperate licenses!)
> > and it connects great to the router. However now i can not get
> > network access to/from the laptop. And whenever i manage to get
> > connection to the laptop, one of the two desktops drops off. Now for
> > example my DCHP table shows the two desktops, a little while ago it
> > was just the new desktop and the laptop, even tho all are connected to
> > the router. I updated to latest firmware for router hoping that would
> > resolve the issue, but it has not. All three PC's are set to
> > "automatically obtain IP address" from the router, and all are unique,
> > x.x.x.100,101,102 respectively (last i looked). Ive fiddled with
> > everything i can in the routers options, even to the point of
> > disableing the firewall briefly, and can't get it to work. From the
> > "mis"connected machine I can't even ping the router, much less any
> > other machine on the network. Any ideas? Suggestions? Places to
> > start trobleshooting? More info I can provide?
> >
> >
> >
>
> You tried using the router's static IP(s) to see if the problem follows?
> Try making all the machines use static IP(s). Then you'll know if the
> DHCP on the router has a problem.
>
> www.linksys.com Support Knowledge Base search on *Port Forwarding* will
> explain how to set the NIC's TCP/IP propeties on the machine to use a
> static IP. On the DHCP Admin screen you can get the ISP's DNS IP(s) that
> must be entered for the NIC's TCP/IP.
>
> You should disable XP's Wireless Zero Configuration Service which malware
> can use the service to access the Internet, since you don't have any
> wireless NIC's installed.
>
> Duane :)
>
I knew it would be something simple. I set the primary configuration for
the laptop to manual, and the alternates to automatic (now and then i do
take it out for business etc, nice to be able to have it "automagically"
configure itself to whatever it gets plugged into). Made no changes to
desktops, both are still automatic. Works great now. Thanx...
Also... New to the whole firewall idea, don't seem to be getting as many
blocked packets as most people do.. any more info on how to PROPERLY
configure the firewall side of the router to get the best protection?
(prefer both Inbound AND outbound if possible)....
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