Re: Xbox

["Brawner, David" <dbrawner () MARYVILLE EDU>]

We have been able to offer Xbox live services by upgrading our firewall
to a SonicWall.  It has shown to be a vast improvement in intelligent
stateful packet inspection over our previous Novell BorderManager
firewall.  The SonicWall has allowed us to permit Xbox, Playstation, and
Gamecube online play for our students without writing any special rules.

Unfortunately, we have run into another nagging network issue with the
Xbox Live service.  Xboxes on our campus have had intermittent
connection problems to the Xbox Live service supposedly because our MTU
size is not 1492 (ours is 1500).  But unfortunately, this is not a
consistent problem, so we have had a hard time nailing it down.

Anybody else have these issues?

David S. Brawner
Manager of Network & User Services
Maryville University of St. Louis


-----Original Message-----
From: jkaftan [mailto:jkaftan () UTICA EDU] 
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:21 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Xbox

We have more and more students wanting to get their Xbox's and other
gaming
consoles on the network.  We have decided to allow it.  However there is
a
problem with them being able to connect to each other on the internet -
inbound ports.  They are requesting inbound ports being opened.  Due to
our
NAT and DHCP this would be ugly at best.  However security is our
biggest
concern.

Have your students been asking for this?  Has anyone found a way to give
the
students what they want securely and easily?