(Hilary Cotter) Prior to SQL 2005, if you wanted to replicate over the Internet your network administrator had to configure a VPN or open the firewall ports 1433 (the ip port that SQL Server runs on by default) and 21 (the ip port that TP runs on) for inbound communication.
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