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Re: A couple of questions



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.

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.

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...

4. Installation time is two months.

There was more but I do not quite remember the details.

Regards,

Andy

Dr Andy Tsouladze
Unix System Administrator
Motorola Communications Israel
mailto:andyt@mcil.comm.mot.com
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