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Re: A couple of questions
>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.
Ugfff... Why not fixed IP, if I'm going to be connected 24/7? For this
money they could... And it really would suck if I couldn't have direct
address.
>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.
What about IRC, ftp, ICQ, etc. - everything that has problems working via
firewall? Is it going to fail?
>
>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...
Are they kidding??? Ever heard of encryption? SSH? What about privacy
thingie? Are they *so* clueless?
>
>4. Installation time is two months.
Well, I suppose it's just a security belt... I hope.
And here was I, thinking it may be solution to 500+ NIS bezeq bills...
Someone other about this kind of offtopic? ;) Please. Frame relay is too
much for poor Linuxer :)
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