Re: Why do I need a software firewall?

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 10/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:45:01 GMT

In article <434018dd@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
> Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
> > > The problems I'm referencing are spoofed source addresses,
> > > which seem to come from inside, and are not blocked because the filtering
> > > rules misinterpret the packets as not from the outside, and b0rken FTP
> > > inspection, which leads into making traffic possible again.
> > > Both are problems with blocking what you're calling "in-bound traffic".
> > And a NAT Router is still better protection than Windows Firewall
>
> I'm just stating now, that this is what you're claiming again and again,
> and you're refusing to offer one single argument for in spite of the fact,
> that I'm requesting you to offer one again and again.

What part of every post have you missed - the NAT device will protect
the user regardless of the settings in the Windows Firewall - and since
the File/Printer sharing is enabled by default, since the User manages
the Windows Firewall, since applications can also manage the Windows
Firewall, etc... The NAT router is still better than Windows simple non-
firewall. Now, if you think I've not stated anything technical, read it
again, try and learn a little about what I've typed, then don't come
back if you don't understand.

> > since few people run FTP servers in their Homes, it's still 500% better
> > to use a NAT device than Windows Firewall - since Windows Firewall won't
> > catch it either.
>
> I'm not talking about FTP servers here, but about FTP clients.

NAT does not break FTP, if you think so, then you know little about
networking. 

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