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Have a pretty simple setup: 1 machine, W2K-Pro, DSL, running Kerio PF4
(recent upgrade from KPF2); 1 machine with Win98se, dial-up, running
ZoneAlarm Free 4.5. Have just added a Lynksys wireless-G router, with
NAT, to which the W2k machine connects via Ethernet, the Win98 machine
via wireless. Really dumb newbie questions:
1. Am I supposed to trust the router's IP? If I trust the router, and
the internet is coming through the router, does that have the effect of
'trusting' the entire internet?
2. As it's currently set up, though both machines are seeing the router
and the DSL attached to it, neither can see each other. I suspect this
is due to the firewalls. How do I 'open' the computers to each other,
for file and resource sharing, without 'opening' them to the world?
Are the firewalls in fact redundant, as far as protecting against
intrusion, considering the NAT?
As I said, I'm a newbie, and I'm dumb.
rabbit
Have a pretty simple setup: 1 machine, W2K-Pro, DSL, running Kerio PF4
(recent upgrade from KPF2); 1 machine with Win98se, dial-up, running
ZoneAlarm Free 4.5. Have just added a Lynksys wireless-G router, with
NAT, to which the W2k machine connects via Ethernet, the Win98 machine
via wireless. Really dumb newbie questions:
1. Am I supposed to trust the router's IP? If I trust the router, and
the internet is coming through the router, does that have the effect of
'trusting' the entire internet?
2. As it's currently set up, though both machines are seeing the router
and the DSL attached to it, neither can see each other. I suspect this
is due to the firewalls. How do I 'open' the computers to each other,
for file and resource sharing, without 'opening' them to the world?
Are the firewalls in fact redundant, as far as protecting against
intrusion, considering the NAT?
As I said, I'm a newbie, and I'm dumb.
rabbit