[OS2Wireless] Help - need crash course on setting up a firewall
Date:
Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:10:59 -0500
To:
os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
In <421A110A.7070500@rollanet.org>, on 02/21/05
at 10:49 AM, Sam Lewis <saml@rollanet.org> typed:
>What Hotel Chain?
It's not a hotel chain. It's an apartment complex with who knows what
setup between the roadrunner connection and the wireless.
>They would almost have to have a firewall. They need to have a router
>to separate the internal/hotel network from the outside internet and
>even the cheap routers have a firewall built into them now. Also the
>routers operation of separating the internal network from the outside
>internet is similar to NAT which should provide a good level of
>protection from the internet.
I'll ask further.
As for the internal network you can make
>sure you don't have any shares on your system and have good passwords
>for your local accounts and you should be fairly safe.
Since I don't even do peer, it should be quite safe.
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