Re: Plusnet 2Mbps connection

On 07/09/2005 Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°5 + wrote:

> Jeff if a router has the following:
> <quote>
> Security features include Network Address Translation (NAT), and
> Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI). The NAT firewall hides computers on
> the local area network from uninvited access through the Internet.
> Stateful Packet Inspection assesses the protocol and packet addresses
> being received to determine if the information should be passed
> through the firewall to the connected computers. SPI and NAT protect
> against Internet worms and Denial of Service attacks, some of the
> most publicized forms of malicious intrusion from the Internet.
> <unquote> Can it readily be set to use netmeeting or is it still not
> possible.


That's a difficult question, FN :-)

If you can turn off NAT and just use SPI you should be OK but I would
ask the supplier to confirm, in writing, that it supports NetMeeting
without having to put the PC in the DMZ (de-militarised zone). They all
support NM in the DMZ but that means you have turned your hardware
firewall off (for that PC) and so would need a s/w firewall as backup.
If you get that confirmation in writing and NM doesn't work then you
will have a claim under SOGA that the router is 'not satisfactory'
(used to be not fit for purpose).

I think we'd all be better off if we could wean pmj off NM :-)

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