RE: Firewalls?

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks John, I think all is now well! I bloody hell hope so!

All PC's say no trace! I hope they do not lie!

B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John McManus [mailto:john.mcmanus@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 September 2001 16:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Firewalls?
>
>
> I use Zone Alarm... it is free for personal use, but I ended up
> buying Zone
> Alarm PRO, because it supports internet connection sharing (I have
several
> PCs on a LAN, with a Win2000 Server sharing an internet connection to
BT
> Internet).  The server also runs Dialer2000 to bring the connection up
/
> down (helps ensure that I do not exceed the BT Internet 16 hour
limit).
>
> w.r.t. NetBT
> The site http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/wins/winsinfo.html
gives this
> about NetBT (nothing to do with British Telecom).
> Microsoft networking uses NetBIOS. However, NetBIOS can use the TCP/IP
> protocol (when it is generally referred to as NBT or NetBT), the
IPX/SPX
> protocol or the NetBEUI protocol, which can introduce a few
> complications! A
> PC using NBT can actually only communicate with other PCs running
> NBT. A PC
> using NetBIOS over IPX/SPX can only communicate with other PCs
> using NetBIOS
> over IPX/SPX, and similarly for PCs using NetBIOS over NetBEUI. It is
also
> quite possible for a PC with more than one protocol installed to be
> communicating via NetBIOS over all of them at once! Within a subnet,
there
> will be a different browse list for each protocol. For NetBEUI,
> however, the
> browse list is maintained university-wide.
>
> We recommend that you use NBT and it is the only one that the WINS
servers
> support. By default, if you have TCP/IP installed, NBT will be
enabled, so
> you don't generally need to alter anything manually.
>
> Generally you don't need to worry about NetBIOS over IPX/SPX because
like
> NBT, NetBIOS broadcasts over IPX/SPX are stopped at routers.
>
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