 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
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Re: Westell 327w medium firewall / port forwarding? If anything, there's probably no need to have the firewall set past "Low" unless you really need such a sense of security. Low will protect the network from a decent amount of attacks, while still allowing use of the internet. My personal preference at least in my case, is to have the modem's firewall OFF and have the NAT capabilities of the modem take over in a way. Yeah, it doesn't offer the same amount of protection as having the firewall on, but NAT at least will drop random connections and such. In your case, if your father insists that the firewall must remain in the medium zone, you could run your PC in the DMZ *TEMPORARILY* which will pretty much forward all ports to the PC in question and switch off the firewall completely for that PC. Just note though, that as soon as you are done with your gaming and such to switch off the DMZ, as otherwise the computer is wide open for an attack. |
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 xeonox
join:2002-11-05
Los Angeles, CA | SMITH, i beleive he stated the Firewall will override other settings, including DMZ, am I correct "Different Key" |
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Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | Last I checked a DMZ should always override the firewall unless Verizon did something whacko to the firmware. Port Forwarding, sure I understand that. |
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xeonox
join:2002-11-05
Los Angeles, CA | normally it does, ive seen before where the firmware code breaks and it doesnt open up the DMZ, for most routers DMZ does override the firewall. |
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