Re: XP SP2 Open Port Range

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:37:01 -0500

Hi Ed,

Correct, the basic firewall only allows you to specify a single port at a
time. How do the big guys do it? They don't use this firewall, they use a
corporate level product and a system of hardware firewalls and routers to
protect their internal network. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"acvlee" <acvlee@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:u4LrLMB4EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I need to open multiple ranges of ports for market data services like 
>Bloomberg ( over hundred ports each). I read it some where the SP2 Firewall 
>GUI do not support opening range of ports in a single entry. I guess I can 
>put the individual port entries one by one in the Netfw.inf file. Is there 
>a better way of doing this? How do Goldman Sach and Merrill Lynch do with 
>thousands of Bloomberg users on hand.
>
> TIA.
>
> Ed.
>

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