Makavy, Erez (Erez) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It then seems that the only solution for supporting informs in a
> "firewalled" system,
> is to use a fixed port (or range of ports) as the source port for the
> sent informs,
> so that the returned acknowledgements can be accepted (by adding rule to
> the firewall, accpeting the pre-defined UDP port).

It should not take that. It might be possible to configure the firewall
to allow the response packet by creating dynamic rules. I'm not in the
office today so I can't ask security how they are doing similar things
with Checkpoint.

-- 
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                -- Dr. Who

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