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raylee011   01-18-2005 at 05:26:52 PM

Thanks for all the input from my other post. Just for those who may not know what happen. Here is my DSL setup. I have a SMC wire rounter and a wireless rounter, I chose to connect the DSL to the wire rounter and disable the DHCP on my wireless rounter to make it like a hub. And everything work fine now. Thanks to all of your input.

Both rounter have a buildin firewall.

I have another question for you now. I think I turn on
the firewall on both of the rounter already. How would
I know if it is working or not?

Do I need to have the firewall on both wire/wireless
rounters turn on?

Should I turn on the firewall on Windows XP as well?

Sorry one more question. How do I prevent anyone from
the outside from using my Internet Service thru my
wireless rounter?

Thanks

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folken   01-20-2005 at 01:40:53 AM
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To prevent people from accessing your wireless connection you will need to use wireless security such as wep, mac filtering, etc.
Those options should be in the wireless routers config.

Just having the firewall enabled on your gateway would be fine to protect your whole network from the internet.

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