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Personally my router doesn't have a firewall although an update to the firmware will supply one. But I just won't use the manufacturer's MSDOS updating method!
At the moment I'm behind the ISP's firewall plus a personal firewall on my machine. The ISP's one stealths all ports on it's own but I keep the personal firewall on as assurance against both incoming and outgoing traffic.
This may have some bearing on the difference in results from pcflank's quick and advanced tests although I still suspect that this is just a sales ploy for the unwary.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:39:21 +0000 David Bell wrote:
81.x.170.x
You really shouldn't put your Internet-visible IP address on a list quite so blatantly. Not everyone that has access to this mailing list (bearing in mind that it is archived and publicly visible) will have scruples.
Many routers will have firewalling facilities but not configure them by default. Others will lock things down completely by default. Cisco is a good case for both... if you don't enable "access control lists" manually, then you have no firewall. Once enabled, if you don't configure it manually then it's completely locked down.
If you have a "personal" firewall running, and yours is the only machine that connects to the Internet through this router, then it shouldn't actually matter if the router's firewall is off.
Grant.
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