An engineer wants to use Dr. DWG Collaborator'99. This is a program to
allow people to chat via the Internet, displaying and even modifying
drawings from their CAD environments. But our engineers are behind the
firewall. Does anybody happen to have to deal with it? 

The company that developed this product says that there is no security
considerations taken in the development, but to use it, one must punch
holes on the firewall to allow incoming traffic, which is very
undesirable.

Whenever we ask people to move out of the firewall to use this kind of
dangerous programs, typical responses we get from our users are: "No, we
want to stay behind the firewall to get some protection." So we have to
find a solution to be able to permit incoming traffic while not
compromise the security.

TIA,
-- 
Peter Zhang
UCS, University of Calgary
Tel (403)-220-4061
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