Re: Help On "Stealth" Fire Walls

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

> I have the direcway DW6000 modem and satelite internet access.  built into the modem is a stealth type firewall that  
> keeps me from accessing overnet, windows update, and a whole host of other applications.  direcway support says there 
> is no way to drop the firewall.  could someone walk me through a way to make my IP address "unstealthed"?

It's less the firewall and more the NAT. I use Direcway too and some
services (I use ground control) offer a fixed IP address option. It costs
the same but you can only (obviously) have one machine instead of
a whole NAT'd network. My Direcway router plugs into a Linksys BEFSR41
which provides firewall and NAT for the 10 machines behind it. :)

mjr.


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