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to: Glenn Meadows
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-07-31 08:04:12
subject: Re: My slow Linux Thunderbird on Barkto investigations

From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:18:40 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>I'll bet his DSL router is doing the blocking internally.
>
>I recall setting up a friends system, and the IP address offered to the
>DLink Wireless router, was a 192.168.x.x number, and not a public number.
>It appeared that his "DSL Router" was also a firewall, that
was configured
>by Bell South to block lots of things by default, as well as doing NAT, and
>not offering a public IP address to his internal systems.

   In my case, I have full control of the DSL router.  It does have
firewall, NAT, etc, but so far I have been able to verify that it is not
doing anything funny by taking packet captures from other external servers.

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