Tiny Personal Firewall

[Infinite0]

hey guys, i was just searching for an answer to a firewall question. i am connected over a LAN at school. i d/l a copy of Tiny Personal Firewall with WinME. i upgraded to XP about 4 months ago. i noticed that after every 20 hours (or so) i would have to reboot because i could not connect to the internet anymore (IM services, IE etc.)

anyways, i had the firewall on the "alert me" setting, not blocking all incoming stuff. i could not fgure out what was wrong, my LAN status said i was still connected. i rebooted my computer just yesterday and turned off and deleted Tiny.

no problems, been connected for over 24 hours.


wha?
thoughts?


p.s. trying zonealarm now.

 

[bleedink]

i had the same problem. i think what happened in my case is i made a choice not to accept some nebulous packet. i deleted the installation folder after uninstalling it and reinstalled it. i have been able to consistantly connect since then. if you just reinstall it, it remembers all yr old settings so its not really that effective unless you totally nuke it

 

[nevadamoonlight]

Ever since I first upgraded to XP from Win98 I had continuous connection problems with my internet service. Got a connection, but the browser said it couldn't find the server. I was using Zonealarm 2.6. Ever since I changed over to Tiny Personal Firewall I've had no connection problems.

I wonder if since you're having the same problem with opposite apps, maybe the problem lies deeper than the firewall, maybe something with the OS configuration?

By the way, I connect through a dial up connection with Earthlink.

 

[Sage]

Tiny (Kerio) Personal Firewall

If you are on a cable connection the three things you can't block re your connection are:
1. DNS (UDP both direction)
2. Generic Host Process for Windows (UDP/TCP out)
3. Reply from DHCP

All the other services/processes that are listed once you install can be blocked.

 

[Infinite0]

Re: Tiny (Kerio) Personal Firewall

Originally posted by Sage
If you are on a cable connection the three things you can't block re your connection are:
1. DNS (UDP both direction)
2. Generic Host Process for Windows (UDP/TCP out)
3. Reply from DHCP

All the other services/processes that are listed once you install can be blocked.

i know it was not that b/c i had the same settings on Tiny when I had WinME. i did not have the same problems with being cut off. i could leave my computer on for 5 days and have no connection problems.

i just had a brainstorm last nite, you know, one of those things that is so obvious you never think of it, "could it be the firewall?" and here i was getting ready to rip out my ethernet card and start from scratch. aieee.

funny how me and nevade had simliar problems.
now that it works i dont much wanna search around too much for why it went screwy. (i was most concerned b/c I crunch for seti@home and I couldnt leave my computer alone for several days!

thanks for your help, all.

 

[Dreamss]

Trying to figure out if you tried to close the fire wall and if you did, did you still not have connection.

 

[Infinite0]

:bump:

well, i guess i spoke too soon. the samet thing just happened with zonealarm. connection just randomly dropped. i am just not going to use ANY firewall at all and see if it still happens.


ugh.


::oh, and looky here, an update for XP just popped up:::

 

[eGoalter]

hmm

hey sage, yes you can block
DNS (UDP both direction)
2. Generic Host Process for Windows (UDP/TCP out)
Reply from DHCP
with tiny personall firewall, i have all these blocked on my cable modem,with filter rules and im connected just fine.
tiny is a little tricky but with some fiddling, its the most secure software firewall ive used so far,has passed all the tests ive put it thru so far...........

 

[Sage]

Your right

I stand corrected, just disabled those setting and I couldn't connect - I require the DNS UDP setting to be permitted inorder to connect to the net, but the other two could be disabled. Thanks for the info.

 

[Infinite0]

it was definitely the firewalls. no dropoffs in 30 hours and counting. thanks for the insight all.