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To: aldrums who wrote (11021)6/21/2000 4:58:00 PM
From: Michael G. Potter  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
I must have missed your question.

timhiggins.com has quite a few articles on this and I use the product found at nat32.com . I have a cable modem, but the theory is the same.

By using your hub instead of a NAT program or a hardware router, you have exposed both your PCs to the internet. If you're file sharing or printer sharing, then everyone on the internet can wander in.

grc.com is a good site to test out just how good your security it.

I would recommend getting an inexpensive hardware router and using that as your firewall. About a year ago, I would have said to put two NICs in one machine - one to the internet and one to the internal LAN, but hardware routers are getting inexpensive.

Of course, a real computer technicion would use an old 486 and Linux to build a router, but that's not me.

Michael
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