dealing with multiple networks in win7

[plugwash]

Sometimes I have machine's with two network connections one to a private network of trusted devices and one to a network that is accessible from the internet. The private network does not have a default gateway set since I want all traffic to the internet to go via the public network.

On XP setting up firewalling for this is not a problem. I can enable the firewall on the internet connection and disable it on the private network connection. Simple.

However win7 doesn't seem to allow enabling/disabling the firewall on a per-interface basis and it's network detection/network type management system seems to treat all networks without a default gateway as "public".

Any hints on dealing with this.

 

[Degsy]

Within Network and Sharing Center, under View your active networks you can click on the network type and change it from Public network to Work/Home network.