Re: Understanding NAT, Firewalls, TCP/IP

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:56:18 +0100, Thomas Weidenfeller
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>It is not clear from your
>description who initiates the connection. If you have some client behind
>a NAT which initiates a connection it shouldn't be a problem.
My project is a tool for organising the internationalisation of Java
code by teams. See http://mindprod.com/projects/internationaliser.html
for my latest thinking on how this will work.

The client would initiate connections and there is no client to client
communication. Just traditional client to server.

Some of the clients will be relatively computer naive people working
on home computers in remote parts of the globe as language
translators. They may have a home router firewall, or some software
firewall, which they will not understand. They will have just plugged
it in and left it to defaults.

I want wondering if there are firewalls that might by default block
outgoing tcp/ip connections to anything other than port 80 or FTP
ports.
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