Re: Do I really need firewall? A newbie's question

From: Lei Hu (leihu_at_nojunk.com)
Date: 05/01/05 

Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 19:47:37 +1000

Demon,

Thanks for your kind reply. I'm afraid I didn't put my question clearly.

With my LAN described in my previous email, I don't have any firewall
installed or enabled on individual machines. I don't care any access from
the other computers within the LAN. If I also disable the firewall in the
ADSL modem/router, is it possible for other people from the Internet to
access any of my machines? If yes, how? Give me a scenario?

The reason I ask this is that because I'm using non-routable IPs in my local
machines, there's no way for hackers to see or access my machines from
outside of my LAN. That is what I think. Any explanation?

Thanks once again.

Lei

"Demon77" <demon.rebel77@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1114923983.414024.178940@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> The ip address scheme that you selected with the 19.168.x.x will make
> it so your internal machines (depending on how you've set them up) can
> communicate between themselves, do they have firewalls on them?
>
> Or are you just asking if you have the individual computers set up with
> their own firewalls and you have the major ports blocked for the IPs
> you have assigned to your computers why would there be a reason to put
> another potential issue/problem in getting data in and out of your home
> network.
>
> I think that if you have ports open and non-firewalled computers then
> it probably wouldnt hurt to terribly much to have the routers added
> security on your home network. I personally try to stay away from most
> router firewalls (on routers that I can afford lol) because it can lead
> to problems with blocking programs randomly... not to mention having to
> log into your router every time you want to change something or to see
> if something has been blocked, instead of being alerted by a little
> popbox (which gets REALLY annoying when your playing a game and it
> pulls you out of it).
>
> I think this leads back to the age-old debate of which is better -
> having a software firewall vs blocking all your uneeded ports and
> controlling access to your computer.
>
> I like a mix of both, balance is good... especially when it leads to
> increased protection...
>
> Hope this was of some assistance.
>
> Demon
>

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