Aaron Adams’s Lame-ass Blog

There seems to be precious little information about this topic available on the web, so once again I’d like to post what I’ve discovered with the hope that some curious Google searcher will find it helpful.

Netgear’s FVS338 firewall (firmware 3.0.2-21) currently does not support UPnP. However, it does support port triggering. Without getting into too many technical details, in order to use the voice, video, and desktop sharing features of iChat with your FVS338, you need to configure some port triggering rules under Security -> Port Triggering in the web management interface. Below is a screen capture of the settings you’ll need. Click the thumbnail for a full-sized graphic.

If you find this helpful, or if this configuration isn’t quite correct and you have a suggestion for improving it, please feel free to leave a comment.

We’re currently in the middle of receiving 12+ inches of snow at my home in Bellbrook. We took the opportunity this afternoon to get a few pictures of the dogs. They stink and they’re rowdy and they get their hair all over every damn thing in my house and they turn expensive dog food into poo, but we love ‘em.

Here they are wrestling in the yard. Watch out for those flopping ears.

This is a really good shot of little dog, the youngest.

The oldest one, on the left, is attempting to chew a frozen tennis ball.

Little dog looks like she’s about to fly away.

These shots are of a growing snow shelf that’s protruding from our roof, probably about 12 inches or so.

Ok, that’s all from my mundane life today.