Re: Use of firewall software in desktops

From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:24:16 -0800

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> said

> Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> <snip>
>> What VPN client are you using? Maybe try using a third party firewall
>> on your own machine so it can tell you what ports are being used by
>> the VPN client and open those specific ports on the built in XP
>> firewall for your general users.
>
> Nothing inbound would need to be opened up for VPN, and since the XP
> firewall doesn't block any outbound traffic, it should work fine. I've done
> it :-)

I thought I had read somewhere that the Nokia VPN client required the user to
open an incoming port below 1024. The only reason I remember this is that an
ISP in Melbourne (Australia) was having problems due to their blocking of all
incoming traffic to clients on ports below 1024 to stop them running servers.

Not sure. It was a while ago.....

Andy.

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