Airport Extreme's Firewall

[Absinth]

Some of the Windows XP PCs here are connecting to our Airport Extreme Base Station. I'd like to know if the firewall of Airport would block out those pesky programs that attack Windows?

[Henjie]

Originally posted by Absinth
Some of the Windows XP PCs here are connecting to our Airport Extreme Base Station. I'd like to know if the firewall of Airport would block out those pesky programs that attack Windows?

The AEBS' NAT firewall should be able to block most Internet worms.


~Henjie

[Absinth]

I tried some firewall tests on the web and it appears AEBS closes while Linksys stealths the ports. Is there any way to make AEBS stealth the ports?

The firewall tests sites keeps on insisting the closed isnt as good as stealth. So should I believe em? They also appear to see the IP address given by Airport. Should I also be worried?

[Edited on 7-2-2004 by Absinth]

[directX]

In my AEBS, everything is "STEALTHed" with only one port as closed.

Yes, closed is not as good as stealth since scanners will find out that the IP address is live (due to the response that a specific port is closed).

[Absinth]

directX: How were you able to "STEALTHed" your AEBS? Pls share.