Re: Firewall 192.168.1.1

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:13:39 -0400, Ajax wrote:

> My home network has a mix of hard-wired and wireless computers
> running on a Linksys router with a Linksys wireless access point.
>
> Some of the computers have a fixed address, the others are set by the
> dhcp server. Zone Alarm Pro is installed on all computers and it seems
> to work well.
>
> When looking at the VisualZone report for Zone Alarm, it appears that
> Zone Alarm is blocking a lot of attempted connections from the router
> at 192.168.1.1.
>
> This is the address that I use access the routers configuration page.
> Should I allow Zone Alarm to block this address? Would adding it as a
> "trusted" address in Zone Alarm create any security issues?

You can block anything that the software lets you configure. However, if
you start blocking your LAN IP addresses, wouldn't that stop your LAN from
working? I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 behind a Netgear FR114p. I
have three trusted LAN IP addresses:

192.168.3.0/24
192.168.102.0/24
172.29.61.0/16

The only security implications in my configuration would be anybody who
physically connects to any segment; all segments are strictly wired.
Wireless has its own security implications apart from trusted IP addresses.

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