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Re: A couple of questions



Hi everybody!

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Dr Andy Tsouladze wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Daniel Baum wrote:
> 
> > Secondly, does anyone have any personal experience of Actvnet's Internet
> > connection system? It looks quite tempting, but I would like to know the
> > downside before I fork out my money. Also, are there any other companies
> > offering a similar package for a comparable (hopefully smaller) price?
> 
> I talked to them a lot, and finally decided against going for this
> business. My main problems with them were:
> 
> 1. They do not promise a fixed IP. Instead, they are going to work with
> NAT.
Ok, use ml.org ;>

> 
> 2. They close most of the ports "one way". That is, you can reach outer
> HTTP servers tunning on port 80 but you cannot serve your Web pages on
> using this port. Same is true for most standard ports.
remap ports

> 3. They say they are going to check all user activities by analyzing
> inbound and outbound packets. This is a bit difficult to believe but...
bullshit! ever played with tcpdump? :)
and they are unable prove anything.

> 4. Installation time is two months.
up to .

> There was more but I do not quite remember the details.
Well , I didn't sign their contract, but I'd experience with their service
on linux machine.
And I must say that despite all negative details, it's quite impressive,
and the link is not quite bad.

> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> Dr Andy Tsouladze
> Unix System Administrator
> Motorola Communications Israel
> mailto:andyt@mcil.comm.mot.com
> mailto:andy@spl.co.il (old)
> mailto:andy@environment.negev.k12.il
> http://www.spl.co.il/~andy
> 
> 

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