Filters & Special Applications

[sshultz]

I am pretty new to firewall administration. I "inherited" the job. We are running a Symantec 200R firewall. I've noticed that there are only 5 access filters per group. Is there any way to add to that, or am I stuck with that number?

I am also having issues with the special applications. We are using hosted email (very small company) and instead of using the access filters, I would like to use the Special Applications to allow coomunication between the Exchange servers and our Outlook clients. However, if I don't have it opened up throught the filters we get nothing. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[lunatiic]

I have Raptor Firewall 6.5 for Windows NT.

How do I block port 81 inbound and outbound to get rid of the new virus? Does a deny-rule win over a allow-rule if the protocol exists in both rules?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SefLogic]

The best way to block port 81 is to setup an interface filter. This interface filter can be on both inside or out side. In our case I would set a External Input Interface filter for port 81.

Check out the following KB for more info on setting this up.

2002092413323954

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/

remember by default the SEF will deny all traffic, so unless you have created a rule to allow port 81 you are not going to pass the traffic.

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