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Ok, I installed Norton Personal Firewall, and it works great stealthing the ports and all. But, one problem, when it stealths, it also stealths the port/s I need for the home TCP/IP network! Than again, with them "un-stealthed" they would be viewable to "outsiders." Am I correct? I have tried setting up NetBeui, but it never seemed to work, TCP/IP was soo much easier, because I am using the DHCP server from out router. Say we wanted to use our router to share the internet (what we plan on doing soon). Would this require us to use TCP/IP, and would NetBEUI be useless? Doesn't NetBeui only work for file and print sharing? The funny thing is, with the Firewall on, I can still configure and communicate with the router (its a Linksys, so it has the website style configuration).

Any ideas here?

THANKS!

I have Linksys router too and i just use the NAT FIREWALL thats built in why is there need for two firewalls. i think linksys routers firewall is pretty efficient plus its free. I personally hate Norton antivirus and Norton Firewall because updates should be free for lifetime not just for one year.Mcafee is where to go i like all there products i still have mcafee version 5.0 and i still get updates for free they dont cost anything like Norton charges there customers and plus NORTON kind of sucks at security.

the NAT based firewall on that simple router only helps deter connections from outside-in but now inside-out...

go to http://www.grc.com and try the leak test if you don't know what i mean

Did that leak test, Norton blocked it.. See, the thing is, right now we are only using the router for file and print sharing. We don't have the right modem to use the router yet.

this results after the test


Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet