I can't help with the IMS ports, but depending on what cisco firewall/router
you're running, most of them can permit/deny on source port as well as
destination port.  It is just not used that often.  BTW, are all the
response messages you mentioned below UDP?


Greg Baumgratz wrote:

> Here's a question:  When your mail server sends mail by smtp it goes out
> on port 25.  Any ideas of the range the responses will come on?  When
> your server receives mail, the connection will always be incoming on
> port 25, but when you send messages from your server, they will go out
> 25 and the responses messages will come on other ports.  The reason
> behind this is if in your router, you block all packets to your
> mailserver other than port 25, you can receive mail without a problem,
> but you can no longer send mail.  I have recorded packets in the 2000s
> and 3000s as reponse messages, of course coming with a source port of
> 25.  As far as I know, you can not permit packets in the cisco based on
> source port, only destination.
>
> Is there a rule that defines the ports the responses will return on?
>
> Greg
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