Re: pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Peter
--- Don Boling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/5/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a user that is on WinXP. She uses Microsoft's Remote > Desktop to > > connect to a remote server (TCP port 3389). I have installed > OpenBSD > > 3.8 to act as firewall for the office. She complai

Re: pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Hennessy
On 5 Apr 2006 10:56:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter) wrote: >3.8 to act as firewall for the office. She complains of serious >intermittent latency problems for this particular network usage >(internet browsing is fine and is corroborated by other office users). Silly question, is the forward

RE: pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Peter wrote: > I have a user that is on WinXP. She uses Microsoft's Remote Desktop > to connect to a remote server (TCP port 3389). I have installed > OpenBSD > 3.8 to act as firewall for the office. She complains of serious > intermittent latency problems for this particular network usage > (i

Re: pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Mentges
XP firewall is going to pose this problem for most every application using bandwidth. The XP firewall evaluates every packet in and out of a host for #cough# security reasons. I have no issues on my cable modem using remote desktop to several machines at a time through my OpenBSD 3.8 firewall w

Re: pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread William Ross
At 10:00 AM 4/5/2006, you wrote: I am wondering whether the XP firewall could be to blame and why? Or is it just a coincidence and the latency is going to happen again in which case I am asking people what do they think I should look at? I have since begun making long term tcpdump captures usin

pf; XP firewall; and MS Remote Desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Peter
I have a user that is on WinXP. She uses Microsoft's Remote Desktop to connect to a remote server (TCP port 3389). I have installed OpenBSD 3.8 to act as firewall for the office. She complains of serious intermittent latency problems for this particular network usage (internet browsing is fine a