So what weight do you have your Routing and BadHeaders tests?  And what is
your hold/mark weight?

Chances are you need to reduce one or both of Routing and BadHeaders.  We
have Routing at 125% of our hold weight, but BadHeaders is only 35% of our
hold weight.  However, we have some negative weighting in place that
compensates for most false positives from these tests.  We do see
occassional false positives with Routing, so that is probably the test for
you to concentrate on.

Darin.


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>I agree with Scott with this caveat...some firewalls will lock down the
>outbound >1024 to prevent application hijacking. So in these cases you have
>to allow the apps outbound privileges.

But "network-security" firewalls don't know about "applications", only
protocols, ip's, ports.

That's why I mentioned a "host-security" firewall, like Zone Alarm, which
controls applications and OS services (and malicious stuff) that are
attempting egress.  SA also has per-block logging.

Len


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