For most routers, yes. The service is designed to work behind a NAT router and you should be able to just plug in and go, assuming your router is handling DHCP services. In addition, there is an excellent network connection troubleshooter built into the XBL front-end. You can configure your Xbox with a static IP if required, you can manually set various network settings, and you can even have the Xbox spoof a certain MAC address if required by your ISP.

You may have an Xbox Live compatible router, but Microsoft may have only approved a certain firmware version for the specific product.

The biggest issue you'll have is "does this USB-Ethernet device work under Linux?" Go here (http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html#net) and look at their list: obviously, listed devices as "working" and "main kernel source" are the most likely to work. Oh, and one disadvantage to using USB: since the XBox is limited to USB 1.1, you won't get anywhere near the speed of a 100Mbps Ethernet network or even a 10Mbps network.

Many people aren't sure if XBL will work behind firewalls at their University, apartment complex, etc. There is a way to test for this if you have a Windows PC currently connected to said network: Download the small, freeware, Windows application called "Port Detective" from http://www.portdetective.com/ Clear all the default ports selected and click "Action" on the menu bar. Click "add a port..

Yes, you can use a "Broadband" router in your location. There many versions available at most electronic stores, from wireless versions to hard-wired.

Think of eBLVD as you think of accessing secure 128-bit SSL web pages. A sophisticated hacker could intercept your web session but would only see encrypted data. The hacker would need to decode each individual stream of data and reassemble it to be able to view the data. This is virtually impossible.

Yes. You must ensure however, that port 3306 is available in order to permit connection to your remote mySQL server. Network Address Translation boxes are not a problem. Non-translating proxies might be however - contact your systems administrator if you are operating under a proxy to ensure that packets will be properly routed.

Yes, the InfoGate 3020 can work behind a firewall or NAT, by opening the following ports: TCP/IP: 8481 UDP: 6024, 6026, 6028 & 6030 UDP: 1588 for InnoSphere

The WARP Video Player is capable of streaming the videos through NAT-capable firewalls and routers. It also supports most web proxy servers configured in corporate environments.

Read the section called "Connecting your Xbox..." for details on hubs, switches, routers, and when to use each one.

This depends upon how your firewall / NAT server is configured. Please ask your network administrator if your firewall (or NAT server) is configured to allow PING and TRACERT to work (which use ICMP ECHO, ECHO REPLY, and TTL EXPIRED packets). You can test this yourself by running these programs on your computer (For example, try "tracert www.visualware.com"). If these programs work, VisualRoute should work just fine on your computer.

It should work with any type of firewall including Symmetric NAT. Symmetric NAT is performed only by advanced enterprise routers, in that case NATPass™ will recognize this scenario and will make the call succeed by signaling and doing RTP bridging. It is all transparent for the user and there is no need to reconfigure anything.

Yes it will, Sky Broadband does not block any console or any other game systems from using the internet

No problem. Freshtel Internet Phone will work with almost all NAT servers. In fact, we have never had a problem with any of them. If you experience any NAT issues then please let us know.

Yes, if the VoiceFinder is directly connected to your cable or ADSL modem (the VoiceFinder is therefore placed between the modem and the router). Then you can build your network behind the VoiceFinder in any way you want. The VoiceFinder works in principle with nearly all types of routers. There are however some routers that are not supported by the VoiceFinder. You can find a list of these routers on the next question.

This depends on the definition of firewall. Some writers (e.g., Gene Spafford in _Practical UNIX Security_) define a firewall as a host on which an ''inside'' and/or an ''outside'' application process run, with application-level code linking the two. For example, a firewall might provide FTP access to the outside world, but it would not also provide direct FTP service to the inside world.

A firewall, router, or proxy server is designed to be located between a user's machine and the internet. It will hide the IP address of the user's machine from view, thereby preventing direct access by external users or programs, some of whom may be malicious. ISMail Pro operates on a very restricted set of ports and contains a number of security safeguards. It can be exposed for access to the SMTP (port 25), POP3 (port 110), and IMAP4 (port 143) protocols.

If due to the security policy accepted in your corporate network or by your host provider you cannot connect to your MySQL server directly through TCP/IP (for example a firewall prevents this), you can use SSH or HTTP tunneling feature of SQL Manager to fulfill your task.

A firewall, router, or proxy server is designed to be located between a user's machine and the internet. It will hide the IP address of the user's machine from view, thereby preventing direct access by external users or programs, some of whom may be malicious. ISMail operates on a very restricted set of ports and contains a number of security safeguards. It can be exposed for access to the SMTP (port 25), POP3 (port 110), and IMAP4 (port 143) protocols.