Press Release Body = NetCom is a software for system administrators, IT-professionals and advanced users. With NetCom you can give full control over local area network (LAN) and over INTERNET connections.
- support for remote scripting (with Microsoft Active Scripting) and provide useful remote administration console; - support any ethernet/dial-up/xDSL connections to control and managment; - support any packets direction handling; - support set of protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP...); - support MAC-level (ETHERNET-frames) handling; - support incoming and outgoing traffic counting and handling; - support TCP and UDP ports handling; - support IP addresses handling; - support TIME-based handling (rule evaluates to TRUE only at specified time); - automatic counters reset with specified interval (every N hours, N days, N weeks, N month, N years); - event-based actions executions (every rule can execute many specified scripts or programs, for example for writing counters to database or XML-file). This actions can be executed before counters will be resetted or with specified interval; - Packets can be allowed, denied or sended to the next rule in list; - Possible to change any packet field (MAC/IP addresses, TCP/UDP ports); - Port-mapping/redirection; - Integrated NAT; - Packets can be redirected to any other NIC; - Bridging between any ethernet interfaces; - Bandwidth limiting for any type of TCP-traffic; - QoS (Quality of Service) for any type of traffic; - With managment console you can monitor realtime network activity; - With managment console you can connect to many hosts at the same time; - With managment console you can monitor remote hosts performance (CPU, memory, interrupts...); - Possible to limit connections per rule; - Includes SDK documentation for control Routix NetCom from custom applications; - also Routix NetCom have many other features. For more information you can read manual...
In the new version: Fixed: NAT: If connections limit and NAT used together - NAT works wrong in some cases. Fixed: NAT: In some cases automatic source NAT works wrong if destination IP address changed by rule also. Changed: NAT: Improved handling ICMP protocol by NAT table. Now tools like traceroute (tracert) works correctly. Added: Scripting: New properties of TrafficFilter object: IsFirstLaunch, LANInterfaces, LANRanges. Added: Service listen port for console connections now logged to the system event log at service start. Changed: When service installed first time - all network interfaces now enabled for filtering by default. Added: If password for service is empty (by default) - console shows warning message when connected to service. Added: Console now have configuration wizard to configure program as NAT router. Added: New service configuration page for configuration LAN IP addresses ranges and interfaces. Added: Console try to detect user interface language automatically.