{"id":25,"date":"2007-04-19T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iddlesblog.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/19\/windows-firewall-network-awareness-how-it-works-it-out\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T12:36:00","slug":"windows-firewall-network-awareness-how-it-works-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/windows-firewall-network-awareness-how-it-works-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Firewall Network Awareness….. how it works it out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stolen from Mark Minasi’s supurb site…. at http:\/\/www.minasi.com\/newsletters\/nws0409.htm<\/a>\u00a0handy referance how Windows XP SP2+ detects between Standard and Domain settings.\u00a0\u00a0 In Vista this changes but its the same principle.
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\nThere’s a personal firewall built into XP that’s always been there.\u00a0 But now it’s kind of “in your face,” as it’s turned on by default and it’s much easier to configure and control from the GUI, group policies, and command-line tools.
\nEven better, it’s got two “profiles;” it behaves one way when you’re inside your domain and another when you’re outside, such as when you’re connected to the Internet with your laptop from home or a hotel.
\nYou might have heard about Firewall’s two profiles, the “standard” and the “domain” profile.\u00a0 (“Domain” means you’re in the domain, on site; “standard” means you’re somewhere else, out of the firewall.)\u00a0 But did you ever wonder, how does it know when you’re “in the domain?”<\/em>\u00a0 I wondered.\u00a0 Is it something as easy as IP address ranges?\u00a0 Pinging the domain controller to measure the latency periods?\u00a0 Arcanely measuring the Earth’s magnetic field to estimate how far you are from Headquarters?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 It’s like this:<\/p>\n