[SWLUG] Solution!

[Peter Joseph]

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 22:05, Rhys Sage wrote:
> It transpired that the fiendish problems I was
> experiencing with networking SME and XP was that
> Outpost firewall is a bit broken. 

Is that some sort of free firewall software for windows?
> 
> Upon uninstalling Outpost, the freezes stopped. The
> system clock stopped sliding slowly off the edge of
> the screen and the dial-up networking icon stopped
> vanishing.

How bizzare!!! (but it is windows :D)

>From what I gather all the problem was caused by windows firewall
software? If you have a linux gateway why are you bothering with
software firewalls on your 'desktop' machines? 
IP masq will protect you from 99% of stuff out there trying to make
malicious connections as your internal machines are not publicly
routable. You can set a port range for each of your desktop machines to
use for things like IRC DCC etc etc.

Peter

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