firewalls

[Guest]

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I had a desktop PC with a McAfee Personal Firewall
installed. Now that we have a MN-700 Base Station and
have an added laptop to our home network for internet and
file sharing, do we need the McAfee Firewall or is the
same security provided by the MN-700?

 

[peter]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.broadbandnet.hardware (More info?)

Yes, it doesn't hurt and since MS Wireless doesn't support
IPSec VPN, you need to turn on the DMZ in the router to
use the IPSec VPN, McAfee will still protect your machine
since it does allow IPSec pass through...

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>I had a desktop PC with a McAfee Personal Firewall
>installed. Now that we have a MN-700 Base Station and
>have an added laptop to our home network for internet and
>file sharing, do we need the McAfee Firewall or is the
>same security provided by the MN-700?
>.
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