[32204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Call)
Tue Nov 14 15:16:10 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:20:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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.
So far this has caught a fair amount of traffic coming from customers,
but none have called to complain about a lack of connectivity.
Because this traffic is IP traffic, I wanted to ask others on this list
how they treat SMB traffic on their backbones?
Thanks
-Scott
