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At 11:07 AM 8/14/00 -0400, Dan M. Maniotis wrote:
>SQL is configurable in terms of network support; on the SQL box you can
>launch the Network Client Utility in the SQL Server Program group to set
>the default network library to TCP/IP (it uses Named Pipes by default).
>Then you should start to see some activity on port 1433.
>
>On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Ronneil,
> >
> > #Hi everyone. We'll be starting the pre-staging of our project next week. I
> > #was tasked to test the effectiveness of the IBM Firewall for AIX. So what
> > #tools can you suggest to test against this IBM firewall? Would nmap for
> > #linux be enough to test the IBM firewall? I think, nmap can only do os
> > #fingerprinting, checking of opened ports, am I right?
> >
> > #I need firewall gurus advice here :-)
> >
> > #Btw, on wednesday, I will submit to the IBM engr. the ports that needs to
> > be
> > #opened. I need MsSQL to be opened and I found out in services file that
> > #run's on 1433/tcp. So I asked one of my colleage to do a connection to
> > the
> > #MsSQL server using ODBC, I run ethereal for linux to capture that packets,
> > I
> > #found out that it was talking to MsSQL through \PIPE and SMB something. I
> > #was expecting the port 1433 to appear on the capture packet but it didn't.
> > #Any ideas?
> >
> > I don't have any experience with the IBM AIX firewall directly but IBM
> > ported that firewall over to OMVS on the mainframe and I have a little bit
> > of experience with that. First of all, the firewall is just a packet
> > filtering firewall with SOCKS V5 for the application layer proxies. Not
> > exactly a first rate commercial firewall. The IBM engineers told me that
> > this firewall is NOT intended for use as an Internet firewall. NMAP should
> > work fine. I would also suggest looking for a tool that has some AIX hacks
> > in it. I would look in the SQL manual to see what MSSQL uses \PIPE and SMB
> > for.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeffery Gieser
> >
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