Network question: Cross network browsing

[Aaron Grewell]

Well, it only allows connections from its own subnet by default.  That's 
actually sensible behavior for a product that's supposed to protect something 
as fragile as XP.  I'm surprised it was that permissive actually.

On Monday 23 June 2003 05:24 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> OK. I found out.
>
> ZoneAlarm, a windows security program,  thinks that if you are on a
> local network, 192.168.1.1, then an address 192.168.0.1 is the internet.
> You would think it would be smarter than that.
> Geez.
>
> Joel
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:33:58PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> > What the netmask on the box in question?
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 - Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> > wrote the following
> > Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
> >
> > >I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter.
> > >From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition
> > >box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro,
> > >on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet.
> > >Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on
> > >the XP Pro box?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Joel
>
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