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Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?


From: Scott Call <scall () devolution com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:20:49 -0800 (PST)



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




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