RE: ISP firewalling of residential customers - was - About Port Forwarding, Apache and Firewall Rules

["Jonathan Rickman" <jonathan () xcorps net>]

> > one fairly large ISP now ships a broadband gateway with the firewall
>
> Who?  Which gateway?  Configured with what policy?

> Heck, I'm floored that someone's doing egress filtering by 
> default!  I would like to know who, their praises should be 
> sung from the highest peaks!


Alltel. Efficient Speedstream 5200 and 5600 series. ICSA 3.0a standards
outbound, with no inbound connections accepted. 

I was quite shocked myself. I don't think the policy has penetrated their
entire network by any means, but pretty much all customers who have signed
up in the last 6 months or so have it. I first noted it because of the
issues with Citrix ICA connectivity I mentioned earlier. Then a quick survey
of a number of folks revealed that it was pretty much a standard package
now.

--
Jonathan

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