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Re: [ECS] web interface and firewalls Don Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:02:14 -0700

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Ingo:

Could you elaborate on your reply? I have a router that uses NAT and my ISP
uses NAT. How would you suggest I set up my remote browser to access ECS
through these two NATs?

Thanks:

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ingo Pakleppa" <ipakleppa@home.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>; <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] web interface and firewalls


>
> If you mean the second, it shouldn't be a problem with the two main
> firewall mechanisms I am familiar with. It wouldn't ever be a problem with
> NAT (or "masquerading") firewalls because they will simply forward the
> request regardless of port. Normally, a proxy-type firewall won't be a
> problem, either, because it will look at the protocol identifier (http:)
> rather than the port number. I don't know enough about stateful
inspection,
> but I doubt it would be a problem there, either.

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