Re: Outpost firewall

From: Kulvinder Singh Matharu (real-address-in-sig@lineone.net)
Date: 07/14/02 

From: Kulvinder Singh Matharu <real-address-in-sig@lineone.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:45:06 +0100

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:07:58 +0100, "resenär"
<res@SPAMTRAPwarriorcomputing.com> wrote:

[snip]
>The IP address thing depends on your ISP. Some give you a fixed address and
>some don't. If they do, then Outpost tells you your IP address when you hold
>the mouse pointer over it's incon in the systemtray. If not, then you should
[snip]

In addition, if you're behind an ADSL router (with NAT) then
Outpost/ipconfig/etc cannot report on your external ISP assigned IP.
The software will only be able to get your LAN assigned IP address.
However, if you have the right utils with the router then the utils
will report what the router has been given by the ISP. In my case,
I'm on fixed IP so I already have that info.

Most ADSL routers have NAT allowing you to connect several machines
to the Internet using only one IP address...ICS can then be ditched!
This way you're not reliant on a single machine for Internet
connection and so the connection is 24/7 (my router also does DHCP
and I run a mixed fixed/dynamic IP scheme on the LAN).

If you're using an ADSL "modem" then that machine "dialling" in will
see the ISP assigned IP address and this will be visible in
Outpost/ipconfig/etc. Using ICS or other proxy will allow the other
machines on your LAN to connect to the Internet through the machine
that dialled-in. 

-- 
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
E-mail : ksmatharu # ieee . org [without the spaces and where #=@]
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