Re: Solution for NAT and FW Traversal or Pass-through ?!

From: Melinda Shore (shore@panix.com)
Date: 10/20/02 

From: shore@panix.com (Melinda Shore)
Date: 20 Oct 2002 11:57:45 -0400

In article <3db2d07e$0$27767$44c9b20d@news2.asahi-net.or.jp>,
Masaya Norifusa <m.norifusa@my.email.ne.jp> wrote:
>How about Permeo's solution? You can find details at www.permeo.com.

Like some others that have been proposed here (Ridgeway) and
*unlike* the protocols mentioned by the original poster,
Permeo allows users to circumvent local firewall policy.
Application security is a good thing, but giving people
tools to defeat network security is a pretty bad idea on any
number of levels.

Also note that the Permeo stuff seems to send traffic over a
TCP tunnel. If the application in question is voice, it'll
pretty much destroy audio quality. 

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