Re: Linksys firewall question

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:36:34 GMT

In article <16Xad.3559$wV6.1507@trndny06>, vrstern@earthlink.net says...
> > One other thing, there is very little reason for your son to setup his
> > PC as a game server (where he hosts the game). Most of the games have
> > public servers that anyone can play on.
>
> Yes, you are right. He has been playing over the internet games that his
> friends have created and invited him to join. He wants to be able to create
> and host his own games. We are specifically talking about Blizzard's War
> Craft, which uses port 6112 (although I think I can change that default to

Port 6112 is a common game port and should not be a problem if you
forward it to his computer. I suspect that he'll need more than 6112,
although I don't know that game specifically, Counter Strike needs about
4 groups of IP's forwarded in order to host.

> whatever - I've seen port 80 mentioned). I have also forwarded ports 20 and
> 21 which I need in order to FTP files to my web server. I am running the
> free ZoneAlarm on my Win98SE machine. Should I put a s/w firewall on his
> machine and, if so, which (preferably free) one is recommended? I like
> ZoneAlarm and have seen positive comments about Kerio. I have not yet
> upgraded his XP machine to SP2.

A personal firewall will not do much for him, it will offer the ability
to control rogue applications and detect some problems, but it will also
cause performance issues for his game.

If you are using a linksys router, look for WallWatcher and enable
logging, this will tell you what is going in/out of your network and
give you a good indication when you have a problem.

I use File Zilla FTP server on my systems, it's very easy to setup and
allows for bandwidth control as well as user/password functions that are
not dependant on the operating system.

Kerio may be a little hard to setup if you are using ZA, I would suggest
ZA Pro instead. 

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