Adding wireless

[eyec]

currently have a hardwired home network and am getting a wireless Linksys router to run a combination wireless/wired system.

can all of the firewall & virus protection be done at the router or do i still need to run machine software?

 

[sleipnir214]

I generally take a "belt and suspenders" approach to antivirus. A single user connecting a single preinfected computer to your network will render border antivirus useless.

You can do all your firewalling at the border pretty effectively if you are running your inside network on a private address space and using NAT at the firewall. But even with that in place, I also recommend that you activate any firewalling that is built into your operating systems and turn off all unnecessary services. It's another "belt and suspenders" thing.


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[mrdenny]

The firewall can be done on the router to protect the internal network from the outside. This will not protect a machine that is on your network from accessing another machine on your network. If you want to block access from machine to machine within your network, you'll need the firewall on your machine.

The virus scanner needs to stay on your machine.

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[MontyPalmer]

Defense in depth. Put as many layers as you can without having them step on each other, and without having the user become unnecessarily hindered. You need to know how hindered "unnecessarily" is.

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[tlinden14]

Hey -
Another level of security that you may want to add, would be a MAC filter, to prevent anyone form jumping into your network and opeinging your network up to viruses, security breaches, etc. Just my 2 cents...

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