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To: CatLady who wrote (6604)	2/28/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Catlady, *Thank you for the links. Winproxy looks like the leader so far, but since they all have trial versions I'll check them out.* personally I think that wingate is better than winproxy. sygate is easier to setup than either of them and works completly transparently. I personally have lots of customers using wingate but have steered my three friends to sygate and all are loving it. One fellow switched over to sygate from wingate and was more satsified with the transparent NAT that sygate provides. I hope you were suggesting I do either number one or number two of your suggestions. If I put up a dedicated gateway with two NICs and firewall software and you'd still think it necessary to disable TCP/IP on the local network then the firewall isn't fully accomplishing it's intended purpose. Three things. 1. the gateway need not be dedicated. none of these programs use a lot of CPU or resources (at least at ISDN and below speeds). 2. I absolutely recommend doing both. Your correct that its unnecessary if the firewall works but you never know.... This guantees no one will see your HD's and TCPIP is not bound to MS networking, only netbeui. BTW: netbeui is faster than IP on small lans. 3. if your already using IPX/SPX for netware servers don't add netbeui but bind MS networking to IPX/SPX for the same effect. As far as Netware is concerned, I realize that it is overkill for a home network, but I checked out the Novell site after posting here. Netware 5 and Border Manager look like very capable products and a substantial improvement over Netware 4. I ordered eval copies of both. Just call it technical curiousity. Novell's IP offerings have always lagged. Whats the cost??? ASsuming you don't have a netware server on your lan adding one for this purpose would be unecessary and expensive. Sean

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