[access-uk] Re: NETWORK/FIREWALL QUESTION

  • From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:48:50 +0100

Hi,

WAN is the connection that connects the machine to the Internet, in your
case Plusnet perhaps?  Is the modem you have USB or Ethernet?  I would
try all the LANs in turn in that box and see which one contains the
username/password for the ISP, this one is the WAN connection.

Andrew.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey
> Sent: 05 July 2004 21:36
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: NETWORK/FIREWALL QUESTION
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> Hi Andrew, I have, in the network connections box,  Network connection
> wizard, new connections, and LAN, and LAN2.  What is the WAN that I'm
> looking for please?
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> Richard Godfrey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Andrew Hodgson
> Sent: 05 July 2004 19:02
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: NETWORK/FIREWALL QUESTION
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> Hi,
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> You need to firewall the WAN connection not the LAN connection - there
> should be two connections in XP, they can be independantly firewalled.
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> Andrew.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
> > [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey
> > Sent: 05 July 2004 07:29
> > To: Access-Uk@Freelists. Org
> > Subject: [access-uk] NETWORK/FIREWALL QUESTION
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> > I have a broadband connection on an XP machine, which is=3D20
> > networked to a 98SE
> > PC.  When the Windows firewall is turned on I can't see the=3D20
> > 98 machine.  Is
> > there some setting which I can change to allow me to keep the=3D20
> > firewall on
> > and allow access to the other PC?  Thanks in advance for=20
> any replies.
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> > Richard Godfrey
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