Re: Linksys WRT54G and Firewall software

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:43:20 +0900, Gerald Vogt wrote:

The XP SP2 FW with no exceptions on a computer directly connected to the
internet is protecting the computer better than a NAT router. NAT does
not provide the protection like a properly setup packet filter.

You don't know what you are talking about. A typical SOHO NAT router, like
the Linksys BEFSR41, provides more protection for a single PC than Windows
XP firewall does.

For most users that have more than one computer, rather than using fixed
or dynamic public IP's for each computer/node, even a typical SOHO NAT
router provides more protection than Windows XP SP2 firewall.

Only a fool would believe that the Windows firewall provides more/better
protection for a single PC than a typeical NAT router.


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