Re: Trying to Figure out What's OK and What to Block

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:34:25 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk
<seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fishlips wrote:

I had the old version of Kerio (2.1.5) on both, I switched to the
free Tiny firewall on the problem computer just to see if the
firewall was the problem.

Migrating from *** to ***....

In your opinion are there any software firewalls that are not ***?
If so, which one(s)?



One thing I am not sure of is something identified only as "SYSTEM"
which looks like it wants to send and recieve UDP traffic to the
router and send and recieve to and from the other computer.

D'oh! That's one of the very good arguments why Application Control
shouldn't even partially considered on modern Windows versions, not to
tell about actual security...

Could blocking this be causing me to lose the internet connection?

Definitely. But it could also be that's simply messing up your network
capabilities with clearly defective software.

OK, which defective software are you referring to here? Windows or
TPF?


Usually it says something to the effect that one computer wants to
send a UDP datagram to the other computer on port 137. Should I
allow this?

If you don't know the answer to that simple question, why are you
quaggling around with a packet filter anyway?

If you know the answer to that simple question why are you quaggling
around instead of giving a simple answer?


-Fishlips



"Delicious Fried"
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