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Me and my roommates have a SMC Cable/DSL Broadband Router. Very basic, but very annoying. You go to the website (the router's one) and just config it, so I turned the firewall off from my friends computer. He can now ping IP's and connect to game servers. My other friend's comp isn't here yet, but my internet works. But I can't ping IP and connect to game servers. Do I have to disable the router's firewall on the router's website from my computer too? The annoying this is when I do it disconencts and reconnects the router and it causes the internet to go down, and then I'd have to reset the cable modem and the router which causes a huge hassel. How can I fix this? Thanks! :p

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No turning off the firewall from any computer on the network will turn off the firewall for them all.

Where you prbably screwed up is the firewall itself needs to be on because on the SMC routers that also controls the NAT functions, but under the firewall page uncheck everything like RIP defects, discard ping from WAN, SPI filtering and so on. It's really weird how SMC set it up.

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I never used a SMC router

I use a Linksys.... much easyer to configure I find....

how is your router configured.....

i.e.

is DHCP mode enabled?

if so.. make sure you don't have an IP on your NIC

if it isn't enabled, you need an IP on your NIC

does this make sense to you?

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I never used a SMC router

I use a Linksys.... much easyer to configure I find....

how is your router configured.....

i.e.

is DHCP mode enabled?

if so.. make sure you don't have an IP on your NIC

if it isn't enabled, you need an IP on your NIC

does this make sense to you?

DHCP is enabled... and my IP is just the one from the router, i.e. 192.168.2.101, my roommates is .100 at the end.

And to mAcOdIn, So I have to turn it off on the webbased config that the router has on my computer as well then?

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and you don't have any "fake" IP's specified on your NIC?

that's the only thing I can think of

if all the routers settings are at its default

it should work

other than that, I've never used SMC routers so... I don't know what else to tell you

sorry....

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