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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?
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Scott Call wrote: > Because this traffic is IP traffic, I wanted to ask others on this list > how they treat SMB traffic on their backbones? One of the things I considered doing was filtering 137-139 in our data centres to reduce risk to customers' poorly (usually through knowing no better, so no offence intended here) configured NT boxes. It does seem, however, that people do want truly unrestricted NetBIOS over IP connectivity into their boxes "So we can browse the server from the office" being a familiar cry. As a result of this, we didn't go ahead with the intended filtering. Experience has taught me that people (a) do this, and do it a lot (certainly in Europe, YMMV elsewhere); and (b) a good number of them are happy to have a server with little external filtering/firewalling/protection doing it. I find this particularly scary... -- Paul Not speaking for my employer, in case you know who they are...
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