[Gllug] Recommendations

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tet at accucard.com [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> 
> One of our network techs (a full CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP, CCSI
> and CCIE qualified guy) once had a blazing row with me about why
> he felt blocking traffic on a firewall from all but a given source
> port was a good idea. He apparently had never heard of the concept
> of random source port allocation, and was insistent that a 1:1
> mapping between source and destination port was perfectly normal.
> The mind boggles. How he ever expected to make more than one
> concurrent connection between any two boxes is beyond me. He no
> longer works for the company... :-)

It would probably work if you where the only person on the planet with two
Pc,s and where only capable of one complete start/stop operation at a time
otherwise your buggered. I would like to do some of the Cisco courses but
that does not inspire confidence.

Harry


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