On 10 May 2001 08:48:40 -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Scott Overfield wrote:
>
> > Good morning,
> > Is there a reasonably secure way to allow netmeeting through a firewall?
>
> Before you even get to "How would I pass it?", you need to stop and look
> at "Should I pass it?" Dig though the protocols and make your own
> evaluation, but you'll need a really lax security policy and no focus on
> client-side protections to open a sucking chest wound like Netmeeting
> unless the protocols have changed significantly in the last two years.
Netmeeting uses the standard H323 communications protocol (among
others). It is not an 'open chest wound' and there are gateway packages
available (at least for Linux/BSD/Windows) that you can set up on an
externally accessible machine that act as proxies for the connections by
your users.
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