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barkupatree2002

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January 26th, 2007 14:00

Installing Network Adapter and Firewall

At home I have always accessed the internet with a computer that has only an internal dial-up modem, and I have never used a firewall.  I am now thinking of purchasing DSL or cable high-speed service, installing an internal Linksys 10/100 Etherfast PCI Adapter Model No. LNE100TX Version 5.1 (which I purchased over a year ago) and installing the firewall module of my Panda Antivirus + Firewall 2007 (the antivirus module of this software was installed about two weeks ago).
 
Does anyone have any recommendations or thoughts about the order in which I should execute these tasks?  In other words, should I install the firewall first and then the network card or should I install the network card first and then the firewall?
 
Thanks.

Message Edited by barkupatree2002 on 01-26-200710:44 AM

barkupatree2002

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February 21st, 2007 04:00

RKinner
 
I did not understand your last post entirely, but that is O. K.  I have not tried again to install the network card and its drivers because I have been researching the procedures for installing Windows XP on my computer.
 
For security reasons I would like to have an operating system that is still supported by Microsoft.  In addition, an increasing number of applications such as TurboTax 2006 do not run on Windows 98se.   
 
I have not made a decision yet, but I have learned much, not only about installing Windows XP but also about computer issues that I had never thought about before.
 
If I get refocused on installing the network card, I will take a look at your post again.
 
Thanks for your help.
 
 
 
 

jmwills

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February 21st, 2007 06:00

I have yet to see a NIC card that will not run under XP so put that fear away.  I can't remember how DNS got into this conversation but basically with a router, it masks the true address of your DNS servers supplied by your ISP.
 
The router now becomes the DNS server and acts as a handshake device (yea I know bad analogy for the networking purist) to pass the DNS information from your ISP to your NIC card.
 
You could manually assign an IP address to your card using any valid DNS server.  Most of the information can be found at www.dnsstuff.org
 

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