RE: Is it possible to Jam windows network neighbour?

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> I am running Redhat Linux 9.0 machine for routing as
> well as iptables firewall for my network serving
> win 98 clients. For security reasons I do not want win
> 98 clinets to use pier to pier for transfering
> files/data among them. In this case win 98 clients do
> not need to talk to server.
> Is it possible to Jam pier to pier network ? so that
> copying of files from one win 98 client to other can
> be restricted.
> Thanks for support.

a firewall can only filter traffic that passes through it.  if your clients are all sitting on a LAN together, there is no way for an upstream firewall to keep them from communicating with each other.

-j



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