On 08/12/2010 03:35 PM, David Burgess wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Cinaed Simson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi - suppose the office LAN has one open outbound port - say IMAP on
>> port 143.
>>
>> I go home and configure my Linux desktop to run a SSH server on port 143.
>>
>> Now I return to the office and attempt to connect to my machine at home
>> via port 143.
>>
>> Can pfsense be configured to stop the outbound SSH connection on port 143?
>
> Just to clarify, pfsense is the office edge firewall and it's only
> allowing outbound connections to port 143? And you want to continue to
> allow those outbound connections, but not to some ssh server on the
> internet that is listening on that port?
Correct.
> This is easy enough if you know the IP address or block of that ssh
> server. Otherwise, you might have to be a little more clever about it.
I don't know the IP addresses of the SSH servers on the Internet.
-- Cinaed
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