Zone Labs blocking the Internet?

alanrowell

I've had problems when using a hard connection between PCs in order to share a broadband connection when building a PC because Zonealarm free doesn't support internet connection sharing.

But this isn't the case here.

Personally I'd just remove Zonealarm and try another firewall like Sygate instead.

espresso

Flexible_Friend wrote:

Can I do that with the free version of Zone Alarm?

Click on the :question: Help in ZA for a tutorial.

Flexible_Friend

Thanks ... I'll give it a try tonight.

If that doesn't solve the problem, I will change to a different firewall.

portchieboy

FF

I originally posted this one.

I had spot on the same problem, and I ditches ZA and put on Sygater, or whatever the new equivalent is called.

Still not fixed though! I still have to go through start/Networks, disconnect the wireless connection, then re-connect., and it works!

So, it is not the FWall, as I thought, but some other setting must have been affected.

It only takes a second, but it is a nuisance!

Nikolai

I don't think the OP is using internet connection sharing - he has a Netgear router. Therefore all you need to do is:
go into zone alarm > firewall > click the zones tab > add > select IP range
Select the trusted zone. Add range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255.
Call it something like home network, or something meaningful to you.
Save and exit.

superscaper

Nikolai wrote:

I don't think the OP is using internet connection sharing - he has a Netgear router. Therefore all you need to do is:
go into zone alarm > firewall > click the zones tab > add > select IP range
Select the trusted zone. Add range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255.
Call it something like home network, or something meaningful to you.
Save and exit.

Exactly (although on our netgear router it's 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.255). that's what I meant but properly given instructions.

rjm2k1

TBH, if you are behind a router, there is no real nead for ZoneAlarm anyway, unless you have configured a default destination for unknown traffic (unlikely!). The router is doing the same job as ZoneAlarm, and probably a better job of it. The only thing ZoneAlarm is useful for in this setup is notifying you when something is trying to get OUT from your pc, not IN, so after the same kind of compatibility issues, I knocked the protection in ZA down to the minimum (I think it might even be off) so it still tells me if something is trying to get out but leaves the router to fend off inbound nasties.

superscaper

rjm2k1 wrote:

TBH, if you are behind a router, there is no real nead for ZoneAlarm anyway, unless you have configured a default destination for unknown traffic (unlikely!). The router is doing the same job as ZoneAlarm, and probably a better job of it. The only thing ZoneAlarm is useful for in this setup is notifying you when something is trying to get OUT from your pc, not IN, so after the same kind of compatibility issues, I knocked the protection in ZA down to the minimum (I think it might even be off) so it still tells me if something is trying to get out but leaves the router to fend off inbound nasties.

That's not my understanding, I thought the router firewall was only really useful for the network as a whole but each pc should definitely have to have it's own firewall for the more common open ports which a router wouldn't block. I saw them as serving two slightly different purposes and not interchangeable.

Flexible_Friend

Nikolai wrote:

I don't think the OP is using internet connection sharing - he has a Netgear router. Therefore all you need to do is:
go into zone alarm > firewall > click the zones tab > add > select IP range
Select the trusted zone. Add range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255.
Call it something like home network, or something meaningful to you.
Save and exit.

How do I find out my range? I understand what the last bit ".1" and ".255" means. What is my router's IP Address?

superscaper

Flexible_Friend wrote:

How do I find out my range? I understand what the last bit ".1" and ".255" means. What is my router's IP Address?

Usually found underneath the actual router along with default usename and password. It's normally either going to be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1.