I have found Netmeeting to be a "virtual" nightmare through a secure
firewall. VNC has some security problems of its own, however routing VNC
could not be simpler or more secure. Kudos for the designers of VNC on this
point. Netmeeting requires multiple outbound and inbound ports including
389, 522 and 1503. These pose a potential security risk to your network.
VNC uses its own port of 5900 that can be customized by terminal. This is
much better than using existing LDAP, TCP and UDP ports as you do not run
the risk of an intruder utilizing these ports to gain entry to other
resources. In my opinion there is no comparison between Netmeeting and VNC.
If anyone does figure out how to route Netmeeting through a single port, I
would be more than interested to know how.
In future releases of VNC I would love to see communication between client
and server be encrypted within the program, rather than using a tunnelling
or third party packet encryption method.
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