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Solved: Hardware firewall - did I luck out

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Bob Parks

Discussion Starter · Jan 18, 2007

Hello,

My VOIP company sent me a router/adapter. I installed using their settings. Nothing more.

Since then Zone Alarm has not recorded any intrusions so I guess they are being caught at router/adapter.

I always thought a hardware firewall required a techno geek and the changing of lots of settings to install.

Is it normal that a nerd setting up a VOIP would accidentally do the job? I'm concerned that I may have gummed something up and creeps are slipping by ZA because of something I didn't know to do with the router/adapter.

Any calming words will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob

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JohnWill

· #2 · Jan 18, 2007

The VoIP adapter has a NAT layer, aka firewall. This blocks any incoming unsolicited request. There's a downside to this protection, you can't forward ports from the outside.

When I had my VoIP adapter in front of the router, I configured the VoIP to put my router in the DMZ of it's NAT layer so all the requests came through. This allowed my to basically ignore the VoIP box.

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JohnWill

· #4 · Jan 18, 2007

Glad we could help.

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