QUOTE(bad_till_bones @ Sep 9 2005, 08:47 AM) [snapback]24506[/snapback]
Thts why I said - "DSL & Firewall r anti of each other. U will hve to loose one thing in order to gain the 100% of other. Yeah, in sum cases u can have 50% - 50% of each other".
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Not necessarily. If you enable firewall on both
router and your system, it won't hurt if you know what you want
from the firewalls. Mostly people use firewall to block all incoming connections, except few which are used by
their local applications. For example you can run a bittorrent client listening on port 12345 on your system
and allow router firewall to forward all traffic to this port to your system. Then this will only work if the
firewall on your local system is either disabled or it too is configured to accept all incoming connections
on the same port. If either of the firewall is misconfigured, you won't get the desired result.
The problem in router configuration is plenty. It depends on which model and which firmware is in use.
I found a lot of problems with
D-Link DSL-502t router. Its user defined firewall rules were not getting saved.
But the default rules set for games etc. were working correctly. I solved the problem by reconfiguring
my application to use one of the game's port. I am using a Linux system and its firewall is pretty robust
to say the least. I am running both the firewalls (router and local system) and things are fine. Well, I can't
say much about
Windows firewall as I don't use it and I don't trust Windows to connect to the Internet.
