Re: BT Router Security Setting

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:09:09 +0000, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have been helping a friend set up his 2wire BT router for his small
> business LAN.
>
> One computer has been set to allow incoming VNC connections but I would
> like to restrict all other traffic in and out but I cannot see how to
> restrict outgoing ports.
>
> It seems to be able to restrict outgoing traffic to all computers but
> not individual computers.
>
> Anyone had any luck setting up anything similar.

Can you put the VNC computer into a DMZ and then "restrict all", which
restriction would actually only apply to all the other LAN hosts?

Tony

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:15:15 +0000
Geoff Lane <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:09:09 +0000, Geoff Lane
> > <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> >> One computer has been set to allow incoming VNC connections but I
> >> would like to restrict all other traffic in and out but I cannot
> >> see how to restrict outgoing ports.
> >>

> Thanks for input Tony but on reading my original post I didn't make
> it clear but it is the specific machine that I wanted to restrict all
> but the VNC port.
>
Just run a software firewall on that machine. (Waits for howls of
derision from the "software firewalls are crap" people.)

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:39:10 +0000, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> That is a good suggestion actually, I personally don't think software
> firewalls are crap and they can
> be quite complimentary.

Flattering Firewalls :-)

Tony