On Monday, November 17, 2003, 09:39:57, Troy Hilton wrote: > I wish I could setup a VPN but I have NO control over the remote firewall. > It ain't my company. And I'm not certain that I'll be able to get them to > open things up a bit to allow me to remote control into a laptop on their > network. This is why I've been asked to find something that doesn't require > firewall changes to work. In my thinking though, I have to punch a hole > somewhere in order to have incoming communications.
And this is precisely what the network administrator is trying to prevent! If you have a legitimate business reason for remote administration talk to them and explain why you need access. >From a security point of view I'd rather setup a VPN and limit what protocols it lets thru than have someone sneak around and establish a tunnel I don't know about that will let who knows what onto my network. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
