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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:25 Sep 2001 at 23:39:14
Subject:Re: [amigactive] Firewalls & network

Tony Mulvihill said,

> I run miamidx and have it networked to Fusion 3.2 via vlink. The whole
> system of networking works fine but I want to switch on miamidx's auto
> firewall. This I cannot do if I want to use the macintosh side on the net
> because the mac internet programs don't see the internet with the firewall
> on and I have to disable the firewall to be able to connect to the net
> from the mac.

You need an entry in MiamiDx's firewall to allow the Mac to receive the
responses to DNS requests, otherwise it will only be able to communicate
with IP addresses. Grab nulser.device from Aminet or an AACD and read
the docs. VLink would need the same entry.

> How do I get the mac to see the net with miamidx's firewall on? I thought I
> read a story on it in AmigaActive but I cannot find it anywhere in my
> collection of AmigaActives.

Did you try searching the database?

Cheers

Neil



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