Background: In order to obtain a 2 way Satellite connection I need to use a windows OS because the application that performs the connection and data transmission will only run on a windows OS such as XP Pro. Another case where software developers have forced the use of a MS OS. Until now my gateway machine was Linux using ipchains and port forwarding. This works well but the required applications to communicate through the satellite will only work on a MS OS. So I managed to get Linux (the web page server) so it would communicate with XP Pro and vice versa including telnet, ftp, web, and shares, and also use the XP Pro machine as it's gateway. But I was not able to do any kind of port forwarding so that the server would be visible at the Internet side of the gateway. Micro Soft was no help as they indicated that their OS (XP Pro) did not have this capability built into their "firewall". It seems that XP Pro has a built in firewall and this does not support any kind of port forwarding. I find it hard to believe they produced win3.1, win95, win97, win98, NT4, NT5, win2000, XP and finally XP Pro and in all of that they never realized a need for some kind of port forwarding. They suggested I get a router. But would not the same problem occur with the router - the LAN based linux server would still not be visible to the Internet side of things????
Does anyone have a solution for this kind of dilemma? Any help appreciated. Bye-thanks_TED -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
