SQL is configurable in terms of network support; on the SQL box you can
launch the Network Client Utility in the SQL Server Program group to set
the default network library to TCP/IP (it uses Named Pipes by default).
Then you should start to see some activity on port 1433.
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ronneil,
>
> #Hi everyone. We'll be starting the pre-staging of our project next week. I
> #was tasked to test the effectiveness of the IBM Firewall for AIX. So what
> #tools can you suggest to test against this IBM firewall? Would nmap for
> #linux be enough to test the IBM firewall? I think, nmap can only do os
> #fingerprinting, checking of opened ports, am I right?
>
> #I need firewall gurus advice here :-)
>
> #Btw, on wednesday, I will submit to the IBM engr. the ports that needs to
> be
> #opened. I need MsSQL to be opened and I found out in services file that
> #run's on 1433/tcp. So I asked one of my colleage to do a connection to
> the
> #MsSQL server using ODBC, I run ethereal for linux to capture that packets,
> I
> #found out that it was talking to MsSQL through \PIPE and SMB something. I
> #was expecting the port 1433 to appear on the capture packet but it didn't.
> #Any ideas?
>
> I don't have any experience with the IBM AIX firewall directly but IBM
> ported that firewall over to OMVS on the mainframe and I have a little bit
> of experience with that. First of all, the firewall is just a packet
> filtering firewall with SOCKS V5 for the application layer proxies. Not
> exactly a first rate commercial firewall. The IBM engineers told me that
> this firewall is NOT intended for use as an Internet firewall. NMAP should
> work fine. I would also suggest looking for a tool that has some AIX hacks
> in it. I would look in the SQL manual to see what MSSQL uses \PIPE and SMB
> for.
>
> Regards,
> Jeffery Gieser
>
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