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Hi Ed,
It's pretty much impossible to accomodate everyone, however I do agree with
you that if they are going to encourage use of the firewall internally (and
yes, that's a good thing to protect against internal attacks from an
unwitting user), they should provide for even more configurability. SP2 was
a good step forward in opening up configurability, but hopefully not the
last. Consider your comments passed along.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"acvlee" <acvlee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the confirmation. Just for discussion sick. Microsoft
> encourage big corporations too to adoption the XP SP2 firewall being
> turned on as the best practice. The XP firewall is a way of preventing a
> MSBlaster type internal attack from one of the infected internal subnet
> node. I think Microsoft should make setting the port range easier. I am
> an IT consultant to small financial firms of size ranging from 5 users to
> over 100 users. I am a true believer of what Microsoft is try to do in XP
> SP2 including the improved firewall. I am in the process of rolling out
> the SP2 for all my client installations. They all use Bloomberg type of
> market data services required static port ranges opened. It's kind of
> painful to do it with .inf file. I hope someone can pass this info to the
> Microsoft OS team for future consideration.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Ed.
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:e9mqn7D4EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Correct, the basic firewall only allows you to specify a single port at a
>> time. How do the big guys do it? They don't use this firewall, they use a
>> corporate level product and a system of hardware firewalls and routers to
>> protect their internal network.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "acvlee" <acvlee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:u4LrLMB4EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>I need to open multiple ranges of ports for market data services like
>>>Bloomberg ( over hundred ports each). I read it some where the SP2
>>>Firewall GUI do not support opening range of ports in a single entry. I
>>>guess I can put the individual port entries one by one in the Netfw.inf
>>>file. Is there a better way of doing this? How do Goldman Sach and
>>>Merrill Lynch do with thousands of Bloomberg users on hand.
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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