Re: Hardware Firewalls and NTL Broadband

From: David (davidwnh_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 05/21/03 

Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:53:09 GMT

Port forwarding is a NAT thing. You don't need to deal with NAT in ZA. You
simply configure ZA to allow unsolicited inbound traffic for the port you
have the service or program listening on. I don't know whether or not the
free version allows this on a single port basis, however pro and plus do.

> I currently have Zone alarm running on my network, but I would like to
> enable port forwarding, which I believe Zone alarm cannot do. I would like
> to install a hard ware fire wall in this case a netgear firewall router.
The
> firewall has the option to pick up an IP from the ISP, however when I try
to
> retrieve an IP it does not work. My set up is as follows
>

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