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Date:  Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:22:30 -0600
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From:  Sam Lewis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Help - need crash course on setting up a firewall

Julian Thomas wrote:

>In <421A110A.7070500@rollanet.org>, on 02/21/05 
>   at 10:49 AM, Sam Lewis <saml@rollanet.org> typed:
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>>What Hotel Chain?
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>It's not a hotel chain.  It's an apartment complex with who knows what
>setup between the roadrunner connection and the wireless.
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>>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. 
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>I'll ask further.
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> As for the internal network you can make 
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>>sure you don't have any shares on your system and have good passwords 
>>for your local accounts and you should be fairly safe.
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>Since I don't even do peer, it should be quite safe.
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It should be then.  I would still check MPTS and verify that you only 
have the TCP/IP Protocol and not Netbios or Netbios over TCP/IP.

As Neil said your probably "safer with OS/2 and no firewall then with 
Windoze with a Firewall."
Sam
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