The risks are minimal. The huge sucking sound you hear is all your internet bandwidth disappearing. We opened our fireweall for realplayer (and other related media players) and our Multilink T-1 circuits (4 of em mind you) is now having to become a DS-3 (not full but burstable to full) mainly because of all this. There was ONE GUY in our govt relations dept. who needed to monitor CSPAN broadcasts via the Web and this started the dam bursting. Just a friendly FYI.... --- Jeff Leggett, CCSA/CCSE, Linux Certified Network Security Management Consultant GTE Wireless (o)678-339-5440 (m)678-613-5440 -----Original Message----- From: Erin Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have to allow employees to use realplayer. What are the risks of allowing udp ports 6970-7170 inbound? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
