Sygate Firewall and wireless

Hi all,

I am curious if anyone is using Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. I have been using it for years now (it was bought by Symatic and then discontinued because it was way too good to compete against).

Anyway I have a laptop now, and I have been trying to get it to work with my Wireless setup, but something in the firewall is blocking the wireless connection from being established.

I did some googling and found a list of ports:
5678,5679,990,999

They stated those need to be open to allow for the wireless handshaking. I add a rule to my firewall to allow them, but still I can't initiate a wireless connection.

I can turn off the firewall, establish the connection and it will work fine (until the connection lease expires). I can reenable the firewall after starting the connection and it works fine.

I feel that I am not opening the correct ports. I have my wireless setup set to:
WPA2 with TKIP+AES


Anyone have any experience with Sygate Personal Firewall Pro and wireless (this is the paid for version)? Again I have been using this firewall for 4+ years now and am familiar with advanced rules, DLL authentication, and most of the other really nice features it has.

For reference I purged by DLL signatures, and allowed all XP services.

What is strange is that if I set the firewall to allow all traffic something is still blocking my wireless connection from establishing, exiting the firewall the connection will then be established.


Thanks for any tips!

laptop is T61 with ThinkPad A/B/G

 

I use Sygate PFP (the last version they released) on my Win XP Pro Systems (SP1 & SP2), Wireless.

Go into Options, then Security, always make sure to disable 'Stealth Browsing', 'Driver Level Protection', & 'DLL Authentication' - these options were always suggested to be disabled in the old sygate forums with some people who had problems with particular network connections/applications; and I've forever *always* disabled these since.

Also, be sure to set 'NT Kernel & System' to allow in the application settings, your browsers, and whatever programs you want to access the network. The wireless network programs (intel in my case) are not necessary to allow network access.

everything else is blocked for me, with no specific ports set to allowed, etc.


- Jordan

 

I use Sygate Firewall 5.6 Free Edition (last version before it was bought by Symantec). All I did was made an entry in the applications list for the Linksys Wireless Manager Utility and it connects fine.

You could try going into services.msc and turning off Wireless Zero service so it stops the scanning. It might provide a more stable connection

 

Still no luck. What's odd is sygate is not showing any blocked packets.

I think I need to add the wireless nic as a 'trusted device', I did this with my ethernet card when I first installed the firewall on all of my PCs, but the wireless adapter has never triggered it to prompt me to add it.

If I can't get any further I will just download Ethereal and see if I can figure out where it is failing.

I suspect it is either blocking the entire device from being initialized, or it is blocking the port it needs to authenticate on for WPA2.