[DM-MUG] OS 9 Firewall?

[Matt W]

A single Mac not running AppleTalk is pretty secure, but it's easy to 
make a network right now that's secure and ready for multiple Macs 
later (or OS X).

If you want to use OS 9 and share DSL through a house network (or to 
another single machine) you can use IPNetRouter 
<(http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipr_overview.html)>. It's still 
available for OS 9 and is pretty easy to set up. Like any router, it 
can be complex, but the general setup is simple using their online 
assistant. I've been using it for years and it firewalls my whole 
network, provides DHCP and NAT. I run it on an 8500/150 and it provides 
routing for my Classic/modern Macs and Windows.

With that said, if you're getting DSL, your provider has no doubt sold 
or given you a DSL modem. With all the recent models on the market, 
you're likely to get quite a bit of pseudo-router/firewall functions, 
if not a complete set of router/firewall tools. Most often that's all 
you need.

Matthew

On Feb 18, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:

> I did something similar for someone once. I gave him/her a file on how 
> to remove his file sharing bind from the tcp/ip stack, and also 
> contacted our ISP to contact him/her as well.
>
> Darcy
>
> On Feb 18, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Chris Tyrrell wrote:
>
>>
>> You're probably safe on Mac OS 9 without a firewall, but make sure 
>> you turn off file-sharing and such. Back when I got my cable modem, I 
>> opened Network Browser and found another Mac or two on the network. 
>> One particular Mac was wide open, so I dropped a SimpleText document 
>> in the Startup Items folder explaining how a malicious person could 
>> have wiped the machine clean. I'll never know who's machine that was, 
>> but I hope he or she took the time to learn how to secure a machine 
>> with a 24/7 connnection.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>
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