[32211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JIM FLEMING)
Tue Nov 14 15:58:02 2000
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From: "JIM FLEMING" <jfleming@anet.com>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@zocalo.net>,
"Scott Call" <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:41:56 -0600
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From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
>
> > Because this traffic is IP traffic, I wanted to ask others on this
list
> > how they treat SMB traffic on their backbones?
>
> We've asked all customers, and nearly all of those have had us go ahead
> and filter it inbound into their tailcircuits. Some we're also filtering
> outbound, again at the tailcircuit. A few have asked for exceptions for
> some home or branch offices, but that hasn't gotten unmanageable yet.
> Most of the ones with complicated remote-access needs use GRE.
>
Yes, all people really need from the IPv4 global transport is the basic,
transparent, end-to-end transport of packets with IP (not TCP or UDP)
headers, without disturbing the TOS field...with that, we can evolve...
Jim Fleming
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