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Subject: RE: Internal Network
From: Gene Lee <genel @ inforamp . net>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:28:15 -0500
To: "'Denis Vella'" <dvella @ ptl . com . mt>
Cc: "'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>

On Monday, February 24, 1997 10:33 AM, Darren 
Cromer[SMTP:DarrenCr @
 Attachmate .
 com] wrote:
>If those are NT machines (workstation included I believe), just be
>aware thats it VERY easy to
>turn those boxes into routers (just a check box).  They could then
>easy pass traffic between your secure and your "insecure" network.
>
>Also, WIN95 can be turned into a router as well, although it requires
>messing around with the registry,  and is not as easy as checking a
>box.

Just out of curiousity, which registry settings are changed? I searched the 
whole tree for anything resembling IP Forward, but no luck. Is it somewhere 
in the NetTrans tree? (The only place I found the adapter's IP address)


--
Gene Lee
genel @
 inforamp .
 net
genelee @
 vnet .
 ibm .
 com


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