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Old March 25th 12, 03:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul in Houston TX
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Default The network path was not found.

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:21:01 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:


Am I missing the capability to isolate LAN users from each other?

Well how interesting!
No where in the manuals does it show the Firewall.
On mine there is a button labeled "Firewall" between
Filter and SNMP that is not in the manual but in
the machine firmware. It enables Firewall rules
for LAN, WAN, deny, allow, addresses, ports, etc.
My DI screenshot:
http://i42.tinypic.com/11jbtd5.jpg
I don't know how many rules I can have.
At the moment I have two active including denying
192.###.###.### from connecting to this machine.
Also denying a specific WAN address.


That's not going to be able to affect traffic between LAN-connected
hosts. Instead, it deals only with WAN-LAN and LAN-WAN traffic.
There's nothing there about LAN-LAN.

Another clue is that the firewall is IP-based, and the router's LAN
ports don't have or use IP's. They operate at Layer 2 (MAC address)
rather than Layer 3 (IP address).


Char is correct. My router cannot block LAN traffic.
I tried which way today and could not do it.
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