Re: Plusnet 2Mbps connection

Jeff Gaines wrote:
> 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.
>
This was what I was looking at:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=10619686998&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=84061

> That's a difficult question, FN :-)
>
> If you can turn off NAT
But is there a way to do just that?
>and just use SPI you should be OK
But does the one I was looking at have SPI as well?
http://www.safecom.cn/code/sub/category.asp?prdid=4&subcatid=1
>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).
By the time we'd gone through that rigmarole I would think the supply would
have dried up. :)
>
> I think we'd all be better off if we could wean pmj off NM :-)
I thought that I ws already there: VNC and Skype together are a good
substitute.
Remember - for some reason Netmeeting on my Host m/c was so slow, that you
could almost go and make another pot of tea between individual desktop
up/downloads.
--
Heard melodies are sweet, but those Unheard melodies are sweeter
flyingnun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx FN 2°°5 +, Mungo Brandybuck of Buckland


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