Routix NetCom 2.1

NetCom is an application for system administrators, IT-professionals and advanced users. With NetCom you can give full control over local area network (LAN) and over INTERNET connections.
NetCom introduces easy-to-use packets-level filtering and management software and improved remote management features. It includes remote scripting with Microsoft Active Scripting and provides useful remote administration console. You can configure access rules to apply to all traffic, to a specific set of protocol definitions, or to all traffic except selected protocols.
Features include:
- support set of protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP...). You can create any rules, based on this protocols;
- support MAC-level (ETHERNET-frames) handling;
- support incoming and outgoing traffic counting. You can create any rules based on this counters;
- 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 reset or with specified interval.

Pluses: NetCom provides a firewall that helps protect network resources from viruses and hackers; in all, it is a unified management console that simplifies security and access management.

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: NetCom is an extensible firewall, traffic controller, QoS, Bandwidth, Bridging, Redirection, NAT and statistics software for the Microsoft Windows NT, XP, 2000 and 2003 operating system.

version reviewed: 1.3