[AG-TECH] Firewalls for the AG

[Randy Groves]

I think that this might be a problem that will need some work.  In trying 
to get a version of 2.2 installed on my laptop (and at home on my desktop), 
I found that ZoneAlarm is majorly incompatible with trying to run the AG.

One of the problems that I ran into was the new 'install the services every 
time you run' paradigm.  One of the security aspects of ZoneAlarm is that 
if it detects a 'new' program trying to access the network services, it 
pops up a dialog (you can shut this off, but then what's the point of the 
security?).  It doesn't matter that I've told ZoneAlarm that the rat and 
the vic are 'OK' programs.  The fact that they've been newly installed 
every time means that they are 'changed' and thus need to be manually 
allowed.  This means that I would get dialogs for every instance of rat and 
vic for EVERY time I moved from venue to venue.

The more serious problem is that when I tried to start up a shared 
presentation, my system got so locked up that I needed to reboot to clear 
it.  This is bug 1023.

-randy

At 09:06 AM 7/8/2004, Chris Rosenthal wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm creating an all-in-one WinXP node and we're having some trouble with 
>the firewall.  I've tried ZoneAlarm and Sygate, but they both seem to hog 
>the CPU when there's a lot of multicast traffic.  I haven't been able to 
>configure the WinXP firewall to allow multicast traffic.
>
>What firewall are you using with WinXP and how well is it working with the AG?
>
>I appreciate your comments.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
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>Chris Rosenthal
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>Email: cmr at evl.uic.edu
>Electronic Visualization Laboratory
>University of Illinois - Chicago
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