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vass0922 · April 27th, 2003, 06:31 PM

If you were behind NAT then yea you could be a bit concerned, but a plain firewall will not hide your IP.
A local software firewall on your machine will limit connections to/from your machine. A hardware firewall will manage traffic at the 'front door' so to speak. NAT will give you a different IP that the public can not see w/o a router. A firewall does not hide the IP.

April 27th, 2003, 06:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
vass0922 Not Really a Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 25,398	If you were behind NAT then yea you could be a bit concerned, but a plain firewall will not hide your IP. A local software firewall on your machine will limit connections to/from your machine. A hardware firewall will manage traffic at the 'front door' so to speak. NAT will give you a different IP that the public can not see w/o a router. A firewall does not hide the IP. __________________ Helicopters don't fly; they vibrate so much and make so much noise that the earth rejects them.