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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
Yo Scott! On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Scott Call wrote: > Due to an increasing number of intrusions into windows-based machines > through unprotected shares, I've started filtering both incoming and > outgoing traffic for our customers on ports 138/139. I have had my upstream filter these ports on me before. They get an angry call right away. I use SMB to mount remote shares, do remote authentication and remote printing. Sure most people do not know how to do this, but I have taught a lot of my customers to do it. Road Warriors love it. They never want to go back to the old ways. I have worked at several ISPs that found the easiest way to reduce the customer list was to start filtering. A lot of folks do not complain, they just move on to another ISP. A good compromise is to notify your customers that you are providing the extra "service" and let them opt-out if they choose. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [email protected] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
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