Re: Student Side Ports

[Dennis Bohn <bohn () ADELPHI EDU>]

Kevin Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Jason Rinne <rinnej () moval edu> wrote:
>
>
> > Now that our bandwidth has increased more users are jumping back on our
network.  As a result I am getting a lot of requests to open ports for
online gaming.
> > What is your policy on opening ports on the student side for gaming or
other applications?
> >
>
> A lot of folks have chimed in but they've not said what I consider the
> magic words. Are these inbound ports or outbound ports?


We block very few outbound ports, and have outbound configurations which are
amenable to gamers.  Now and again, we have received requests to open
inbound ports for gamers, which we must decline.

Dennis Bohn
Manager of Network and Systems
Adelphi University
bohn () adelphi edu
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