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Sanford.. I don't have an answer to your question, but your email prompted
another question for me:
If you only run TS2000i and esignal on one machine -- no browser or email
client, is it still necessary/desirable to have a software firewall and/or
virus protection software on that computer?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanford Morton" <smorton@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Zone Alarm firewall and Esignal data feed
> ZoneAlarm may be causing disconnects between GlobalServer and Esignal
feed.
>
> I use Esignal to feed TS2000i on Win2000pro. I recently installed the free
> ZoneAlarm firewall. (I began to get those alarming and annoying UDP spam
popup
> messages on my desktop. I recommend the free ZoneAlarm--easy to install
and
> manage, and makes me invisible according to the probe at grc.com.)
>
> However every several days, I experience repeated disconnects between
Global
> Server and Esignal's Data Manager. In Global Server, I must toggle Work
Offline
> | Work Online to re-establish the connection, but it is likely to go out
again
> in a few minutes. It doesn't happen every day, but every couple or several
days
> it becomes viciously unstable. Esignal's Data Manager reports no
difficulties.
>
> I typically also run a single instance of Esignal's charts. This seems to
seldom
> or never suffer an outage. However, when I launch an additional instance
of
> Esignal charts, the outage frequency increases, both for GlobalServer and
the
> second instance.
>
> Turning ZoneAlarm off seems to correct the problem for the rest of the
day, and
> I don't recall this happening much before installing ZoneAlarm.
>
> Is this a well-known problem, and is there any good fix for it?
>
> Thanks for your comments,
> Sandy Morton
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