hardware and software firewall?

From: Ed Chait (edchait4remove_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:00:39 -0800

I recently upgraded my primary Win98SE machine to XP Home with SP2. This pc
has wireless router with a hardware firewall.

By default, the software firewall was turned on during the installation and
doesn't seem to be causing any major issues or conflicts outside of some
problems I am having running peer-to-peer file sharing programs on the other
pc's on the net.

Are there any benefits or detriments to running both the software and
hardware firewalls?

thanks,

ed

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