[Wolves] Smoothwall or router oh and cionnection sharing?

Simon Burke its_simon_burke at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 7 14:05:24 BST 2004


On 7/4/04 1:04 pm, "Ron Wellsted" <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Wayne Morris wrote:
> 
>> Ha, well yes in principle - but MSN uses a random port - one of a
>> <large> number, can't remember if it was 100 or five hundred , which you
>> can't specify - so you have to manually forward every port to your
>> client, which would take hours to type in. i think the paid for version
>> of smoothie allows you to do ranges ie forward 3400-3500 to xxx.
>> This also applies to chat thru MSN as well btw.
> 
> This is one of the (very annoying) characteristics of the H.323 protocol.
> 
> Look at the Mandrake MNF8.2 firewall. Free download and it is much more
> versatile than smoothie, including allowing port ranges to be configured.
> 
> 
TBh, I've never used a smoothie nor mdk firewalls, I've just used a 27Mb
install of freebsd5 with iptables an a little bit of code




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