From: "Eric Greenberg" :Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Where's the ping? I found it


> At 09:17 PM 1/7/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >Eric,
> >
> >snip> >
> >Mary Wolden
>
> Mary,
>
> You are correct about their web page and I don't dispute the fact that you
> never got it to work (I have a MCSE friend that could not either).  But I
> have to say they are wrong.  Either that or I am incredibly lucky to have
> run Sygate, Wingate AND Windows ICS (all at different times obviously) and
> had absolutely no problems running ZA on the gateway machine.  All I had
to
> do was place the LAN IP block (or in one case just the computer name) in
to
> the local zone.  I can't explain why it worked, it just did.  I wrote to
> Zone Labs directly several times about this and never received a response.
>
> Now, with the upgrade to version 2.1 of ZA, they may have disabled this
> functionality in the "freeware" version, but I can say that at one time it
> did work.
>

Eric,

When you were running Zone alarm with your network, did you have a static or
dynamic IP address?  I was wondering if this might be the reason some people
have been able to get it to work and others have not.

Mary Wolden

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