On 23-May-2002 at 21:28:19 Jim Grossl wrote: > Are your saying that you have or are thinking of configuring > your firewall to filter out packets with non-privileged ports in the > *source* address? > Yes, we have...
> If you could I would think this would shutdown a great deal of incoming > traffic!! This is not what you want. > Yes, source port filtering is occurring. However it is not my doing! :-) It was simply something I came across when trying to sort some other problem out. Since I'm not the one setting the ACL's I wanted to make sure this was indeed not what we wanted, or at least not what other sites do, before I went to my manager and pointed out that we were blocking certain source ports. I should add that this is made worse by the fact that it is occurring on both the inbound and outbound interfaces. So we are, no doubt, blocking our own traffic trying to get out! Thanks for the reply, John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available from public key servers
