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wittywit

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November 25th, 2005 21:00

Dell 2350 Wireless Router Firewall

How to I totally disable firewall in Dell 2350 router.  This piece of junk has never worked properly, drops connection twice a week.  Universal plug n play also never works; in order to work properly with MSN Messenger, I need to add port forwarding.  Also blocks iTunes.
 
DMZ only helps with a single computer on network.
 
Since I have Trend Micro firewall on all networked computers, I wish to disable router firewall.  Cannot find any advanced settings or documentation to accomplish this.  Dell wants to charge me to ask this question!!!
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 

NemesisDB

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November 26th, 2005 01:00

Let me preface this by saying I have no clue about the Dell 2350 router.

That said, when people talk about firewalls on home routers they generally mean NAT firewalls.  "Firewall" in this case is more of a benefit of how the router does its core job -- in your case sharing your internet connection.  Your router is dividing off your private home network (and private IP addresses) from the internet at large.  You cannot turn NAT off and share a single IP address across multiple computers.
 
To sum up, if you want to share a single IP address that you're getting from your ISP or if you want a private home network you need NAT.  Unforunately, this functionality is the firewall you're talking about.

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