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, Gary E. Miller wrote: > 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. I think SMB attacks are a serious problem and did not have problems at the one place I worked where the ISP started arbitrarily filtering SMB - the only problem was that they gave no warning before doing it. > A good compromise is to notify your customers that you are > providing the extra "service" and let them opt-out if they > choose. Agreed. -- Steve Sobol, BOFH, President 888.480.4NET 866.DSL.EXPRESS 216.619.2NET North Shore Technologies Corporation http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net JustTheNet/JustTheNet EXPRESS DSL (ISP Services) http://JustThe.net mailto:[email protected] Proud resident of Cleveland, OH
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