Good or bad news? No firewall activity.

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[HeffeD]

It's all down to personal preference. Many people run a hardware and a software firewall. Which is fine, but you don't want to run two software firewalls together.

Personally, since NAT keeps the chatter out, I don't have the firewall on my router enabled and rely on Comodo's firewall for any actual intrusion attempts to my machine. (I've yet to have any)

[DonZ]

NAT explaination http://www.tech-faq.com/nat-network-address-translation.shtml.

Statefull Inspection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall

On my Netoptia/Motorola modem/router I have NAT, stateful inspection, and the firewall all set on. Note that with this configuration if you need to use uTorrent and the like, you would have to define "pinholes" on the router firewall. These are basically router firewall rules to open select ports. Most router firewall rules are very cryptic and somewhat difficult to setup.

The only alerts I get from Comodo's firewall is when I install new software and it attempts to connect outbound for the first time.

[diligentinquirer]

[at] HeffeD Hey guy, thnaks Much for the GRC.com shieldsup test site info. Been looking for something like that in my surfing travels. Very good info there. other help, also Appeciated!

[at] DonZ. tks for the two explanation urls! And your experiences also helpful.

So gys, even with all this help, still wondering about this. How to test just the Comodo firewall to be sure it is working, ya know?. Use GRC.com shieldsup tests>> if so, how to setup? or?

Thanks Diligent.

[HeffeD]

Well, you can try the COMODO Leak Test Suite.

Other than that, in order to test your software firewall at GRC.com, you'd need to set up a DMZ in your router. I've never bothered with that myself, so I couldn't tell you how to do it, but I'd imagine the modem documentation could help you out there.

[diligentinquirer]

ok HeffeD. will try all yr sugestions. Much appreciated, Diligent.

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