is is possible?

not familiar with Sygate but in Zonealarm there's a screen which lists all your network adapters. Just configure your LAN's network adapter to not be 'trusted'.

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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

would that block other users on my network from pinging my connection?
I'm pretty new to sygate still too, I used to run outpost but I started getting BSOD and Agnitum never released a fix for it so i switched a few weeks ago to SPF.

Under tools > options > network neighborhood - I have unchked both options to allow browse network neighborhood files and printer and allow share file and printer. But I don't think that it does the things that I want.

It should be settings in your firewall software.

Like I said I'm not familiar with anything but Zonealarm, but I know I had problems with my home network PCs not being able to see the one with ZoneAlarm on, because by default after install it decided my home network was unsafe, and I had to tell it that my LAN adapter was a 'Trusted Zone' before my PC re-appeared. You should find something similar in your software I would guess.

I couldn't PING, browse across to the 'puter or anything until I suddenly realised that it was zonealarm that was blocking me - it seemed as if that PC just didn't exist at all. I spent half an hour plugging and unplugging cables and fiddling with settings until I thought to check Zonealarm. I felt a bit stupid after I realised :redface:

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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

yeah i had really bad luck with ZA pro so I'm gonna stay away from it. But I dun think there is something like that in SPF where it asks whether or not a network is trusted or not like most of the other firewalls.
Thanks for ur reply. I guess I will have to fiddle around with it and see if it's possible. or maybe just switch back to kerio or outpost. =\

Never tried that firewall, but check for "block incoming icmp requests" or "outgoing icmp echo replies". Or you can just block ICMP all together, but then you can't ping.

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thanks for ur reply dev. I see nothing pertaining to ICMP. I might try the sygate help forum and try my luck there. Thanks again!