s0kkiplast Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hello!I'm about to install a version of Windows where the windows firewall is completely absent. Iv'e heard that this can be a problem if you want to have the ports open in a torrent-client. But my question is: is this the case if you are directly connected to a fiber lan connection and not through a router/modem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 If there are ports to open you would be behind a NAT device (otherwise they are open by default as there is nothing to close them)And in that case it is always safe to open a port that a torrent-client would use (as opposed to opening, say, the netbios ports, which is definitely dangerous)"fiber lan connection" in combination with "no router" is rather contradictory - how would have a LAN without a router? Is it an ISP-wide "LAN" maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0kkiplast Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Harold"If there are ports to open you would be behind a NAT device (otherwise they are open by default as there is nothing to close them)And in that case it is always safe to open a port that a torrent-client would use (as opposed to opening, say, the netbios ports, which is definitely dangerous)"fiber lan connection" in combination with "no router" is rather contradictory - how would have a LAN without a router? Is it an ISP-wide "LAN" maybe?"Yes that was what I meant. Do you mean this will be no problem for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 That would depend on what you are agreeing with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0kkiplast Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Is it an ISP-wide "LAN" maybe?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Well in any case it is safe to open a "semi random" port for specific use by a torrent client (assuming the torrent client is not exploitable) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0kkiplast Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Yeah but will the ports be connectible without windows firewall being on the system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Sure will, XP's firewall doesn't do very much in any case, but firewalls should only make it harder to access them from the outside (if they made it any easier, shame on them! they would be backdoors instead of firewalls)Unless windows goes crazy and thinks "oh no firewall? ok then no internet." which sounds like something Vista might do - but any sane version of windows should* be fine.. * they work fine with the firewall disabled anyway, although that's not really the same - so no guarantees here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Nah, the Windows firewall doesn't do anything like that. It's also more than sufficient for blocking incoming connections.But it doesn't matter if you have a router. Opening ports is safe too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0kkiplast Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Well. I know that would be the logic thing. But I know for a fact that (at least for router users) the ports will act closed if there is no windows firewall on the system, I don't mean that it is disabled (I have always disabled it) but it is totally absent, removed before installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 I used to remove it on XP installs and I never had any issues with it being gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0kkiplast Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Ok Firon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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