ZoneAlarm & D Link Wireless AP

[tnapier]

I have a home LAN (2 pc's & 1 laptop) that share a satellite broadband
connection. This worked fine until I installed ZoneAlarm Pro on all 3
machines. They are all setup to share the connection (main pc as
gateway, others as clients of gateway). Now to use the broadband
connection on my client machines I have to turn off ZAPro on the
gateway machine.
Then I installed a D Link DWL 7100AP wireless access point on the LAN,
& was setup as per the manual. My wireless machines can detect the
access point, but cannot connect to it. The access point does not
appear anywhere on my Network Connections. I have entered the IP
Address of the access point into ZoneAlarm as part of the 'trusted
zone', but I still cannot use it.
I have only a fairly basic technical ability when it comes to these
things. Anyone have any ideas on either of these problems??

 

[Rick Wintjen]

I have a home LAN (2 pc's & 1 laptop) that share a satellite broadband
connection. This worked fine until I installed ZoneAlarm Pro on all 3
machines. They are all setup to share the connection (main pc as
gateway, others as clients of gateway). Now to use the broadband
connection on my client machines I have to turn off ZAPro on the
gateway machine.
Then I installed a D Link DWL 7100AP wireless access point on the LAN,
& was setup as per the manual. My wireless machines can detect the
access point, but cannot connect to it. The access point does not
appear anywhere on my Network Connections. I have entered the IP
Address of the access point into ZoneAlarm as part of the 'trusted
zone', but I still cannot use it.
I have only a fairly basic technical ability when it comes to these
things. Anyone have any ideas on either of these problems??

Have you opened the Firewall - Zones tab and entered your LAN definition
as a Subnet in the Trusted Zone?

 

[tnapier]

G'day Rick,
Yes, the IP Address 192.168.0.50 is entered in the Trusted Zone. Is
this what you mean by the LAN definition?

 

[saw]

Suggest that you solve Zone Alarm issue first. The Wi-Fi issue may be
cured by accessing the built-in system editor, usually by
http://192.68.1.1. Enter that in web browser and it should respond.
Zone Alarm can be tricky and annoying. Ipconfig/all in a command window
on each machine and gather all your info regarding settings, making sure
that you have it all together and then get back into Zone Alarm and
check the Intranet settings.
Still troubled? Try removing Zone Alarm from client machines, working
with your gateway until it runs and then adding Zone Alarm back to other
machines.

 

[Rick Wintjen]

G'day Rick,
Yes, the IP Address 192.168.0.50 is entered in the Trusted Zone. Is
this what you mean by the LAN definition?

If you Add a Subnet type, and put it in the Trusted Zone, that allows
you to access to the entire LAN without interference. IOW, select Add >>
Subnet, put 192.168.0.0 in the IP, and 255.255.255.0 in the mask, all
addresses on that LAN (.0 thru .255) will be Trusted. You may also have
to enable your gateway machine to be the DNS server for your LAN, or put
the addresses of the into the Trusted Zone. BTW, is your gateway
machine's IP listed as the default gateway in the TCP/IP settings of the
client machines?

To connect to the AP, you'll need to set up the parameters for the AP in
your wireless config tool, and login to the AP from the wired side to
set it up.