Re: Linksys WRT54G and Firewall software

Leythos wrote:
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.

Sorry, but if you cannot explain why that would be so how should any fool understand your point?

What is the "more" in protection a WRT54G (which we are talking about here, don't we) with standard firmware (not a third party firmware) provides over a single or multiple windows PCs with a XP SP2 firewall set with no exceptions allowed and connected directly to the internet?

You just say NAT is better the SP2 FW but you never explain why. You give no arguments why that would be so. I have tried to explain the reasons for my statement (which you have not cited).

And whenever I see someone whose only "arguments" are like "it is obvious" or "only a fool" I get very suspicious...

Thus would you please explain?

Gerald
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