Re: Kerio Personal Firewall . . .

From: Alan Illeman (illemann_at_surfbest.net)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:12:30 -0400

"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
news:YTLbc.68583$K91.157832@attbi_s02...
>
> ""Crash" Dummy" <dvader@deathstar.mil> wrote in message
> news:106v0heci6cgu6a@corp.supernews.com...
> > >They make dial-up NAT routers. A guy I work with had a D-Link model
that
> has
> > >a RS232 serial port that he connected to a standalone phone modem.
> >
> > The point the OP is making is that he has an internal dialup modem, not
a
> > standalone external one. The only thing between the 'phone line and the
> computer
> > bus is a card. There is no place to insert a router in the path. A
> software
> > firewall is the only option.
> > --
>
> Crash? Like the man cannot pull out the internal modem? Is there
something
> stopping him from doing it? If the OP wants to use the router, then he
will
> have to pull the internal modem out of the computer.
>
> The only thing that could possibly stop the OP from pulling the internal
> modem out of the computer is if the modem is somehow wired to the board.
> If it's not that situation, then open the machine up pull the thing out.

It's a 'winmodem', in a PCI slot, not an external one. It's not "if the OP
wants to use a router", this was your suggestion, not mine - but I'll go
along with it, if it is at all practical.

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