Allie
June 7th 03, 02:33 PM
Am I right in thinking that my network will be safer if I
use internet connection sharing? I read this on the
pracically networked site:
-a. Separate your LAN onto its own network.
If you've followed my instructions for sharing your
connection, you either are running a sharing program in a
computer that has two Ethernet adapters (NICs), or your
LAN is behind a hardware router. In either case, you have
made your LAN really LOCAL and the only data that goes out
to the Internet is data that you want to go there.
At the moment, although our two pc's are networked we are
not using ICS. Instead we can use each individual computer
to dial up the internet. So if we share an internet
connection, our lan is local as in the description above?
Another query I have about ICS is that if the main PC has
got a firewall, does the other pc that will be dialling
through the main pc also need a firewall?
Many thanks in advance,
Allie
use internet connection sharing? I read this on the
pracically networked site:
-a. Separate your LAN onto its own network.
If you've followed my instructions for sharing your
connection, you either are running a sharing program in a
computer that has two Ethernet adapters (NICs), or your
LAN is behind a hardware router. In either case, you have
made your LAN really LOCAL and the only data that goes out
to the Internet is data that you want to go there.
At the moment, although our two pc's are networked we are
not using ICS. Instead we can use each individual computer
to dial up the internet. So if we share an internet
connection, our lan is local as in the description above?
Another query I have about ICS is that if the main PC has
got a firewall, does the other pc that will be dialling
through the main pc also need a firewall?
Many thanks in advance,
Allie