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| 589907 | 2007-09-10 07:24:00 | Hello everyone. I have a Dynalink 1320 ADSL+2 connected with Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router. So yeah I connect wireless. Now both have a hardware firewall on them, the question is..... do both firewalls need to be on or just the dynalink f.w or Linksys fw? I also have Vista firewall as well. :help: Thanks G.B |
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| 589908 | 2007-09-10 09:43:00 | Well theres absolutely no harm in keeping the hardware firewalls on. In fact, I'm not sure how to turn it off on my Linksys router. Keep all of them all including the software based Vista one. No such thing as too much security. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 589909 | 2007-09-10 10:31:00 | You generally wont get all that much extra security from running multiple firewalls - it will however make things a pain in the ass to manage, as you will have three seperate security tables, which is messy to manage. The only way around this is to set all three firewalls to allow or block identical traffic, in which case there is absolutely no benefit of multiple firewalls. Your network will be much easier to manage if you pick the best of the three, and disable the others. | iwalmsley (12803) | ||
| 589910 | 2007-09-10 19:57:00 | None of them will deal with outgoing programs. I'd have one hardware one and the install a 3rd party software firewall as well. |
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