Router without firewall?
Louise
using Norton Internet Security and am very happy with it.
I now want to move to cable (Road Runner) and will have to use PPOE. As
a result, I will need a router to connect my second computer.
I would like to get an inexpensive router and have no desire to use the
firewall on the router since Norton has served me very well.
Is there a reliable router without a firewall?
If not, can I get the Linksys and completely disable the use of its
firewall?
Is there some compelling reason to prefer Linksys firewall to Norton?
TIA
Louise
David Efflandt
> I've been using DSL with two static IP addresses and a hub. I've been
> using Norton Internet Security and am very happy with it.
>
> I now want to move to cable (Road Runner) and will have to use PPOE. As
> a result, I will need a router to connect my second computer.
Cable using PPPoE? That's a new one. I thought most cable uses DHCP.
But most broadband gateways will do either.
> I would like to get an inexpensive router and have no desire to use the
> firewall on the router since Norton has served me very well.
>
> Is there a reliable router without a firewall?
>
> If not, can I get the Linksys and completely disable the use of its
> firewall?
Since you will likely be sharing a single internet IP, the gateway/router
will likely need to do NAT (network address translation), which makes all
your computers appear to be the same IP on the internet. This will block
most things you don't want except for ports you specifically forward in.
For incoming connections any particular port can only be forwarded to 1
internal IP. This does not affect outgoing connections.
You may still want to leave your firewall in place for any ports you do
open.
Check out the hardware forums at http://www.dslreports.com/
While various companies seem to have various problems, I picked up a
D-Link DI 704 for $29 after rebate and it has served me well so far.
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Chad Whitten
router and you can totally bypass the nat functionality of it if you need
to. by default, they dont do any firewalling but only do nat which is a
type of firewall by itself. they can be made to do some packet filtering,
port filtering and port forwarding as well though.
Louise wrote:
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Nexband Communications
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Louise
says...
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:28:32 -0400, Louise <lou...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> > I've been using DSL with two static IP addresses and a hub. I've been
> > using Norton Internet Security and am very happy with it.
> >
> > I now want to move to cable (Road Runner) and will have to use PPOE. As
> > a result, I will need a router to connect my second computer.
>
> Cable using PPPoE? That's a new one. I thought most cable uses DHCP.
> But most broadband gateways will do either.
>
> > I would like to get an inexpensive router and have no desire to use the
> > firewall on the router since Norton has served me very well.
> >
> > Is there a reliable router without a firewall?
> >
> > If not, can I get the Linksys and completely disable the use of its
> > firewall?
>
> Since you will likely be sharing a single internet IP, the gateway/router
> will likely need to do NAT (network address translation), which makes all
> your computers appear to be the same IP on the internet. This will block
> most things you don't want except for ports you specifically forward in.
> For incoming connections any particular port can only be forwarded to 1
> internal IP. This does not affect outgoing connections.
>
> You may still want to leave your firewall in place for any ports you do
> open.
>
> Check out the hardware forums at http://www.dslreports.com/
> While various companies seem to have various problems, I picked up a
> D-Link DI 704 for $29 after rebate and it has served me well so far.
>
>
that I will no longer have the static IP addressess I've had with DSL
for two years.
Sorry for the comfusion
Louise
Louise
Louise