Tom, Thanks. I'll pursue this avenue and let you all know how it goes. Did Stefaan post a reply? Yours is the first reply I received. I wonder if I'm missing posts... -----Original Message----- From: Thomas W. Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:09 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: defining a port range http://www.ISAserver.org Hi John, As Stefaan said, you can't and don't really want to do this with protocol rules. Sounds like your app works like RPC. The best solution is an application filter. If you have a C++ guy on staff, maybe he can study the SDK and fry you up an app filter. HTH, Tom www.isaserver.org/shinder <http://www.isaserver.org/shinder> -----Original Message----- From: John C. Shepard [mailto:jshepard@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:26 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: defining a port range http://www.ISAserver.org Hasn't anybody else had the need to open a range of ports through ISA? I did not think this would be that uncommon. -----Original Message----- From: John C. Shepard Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:50 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] defining a port range http://www.ISAserver.org Is there any way to open a range of ports with one definition? I need to publish a server and allow connections from the outside on a range of 1000 contiguous ports. I have tried creating a protocol definition with the first port as primary and the rest 999 as secondary but it does not work. Creating 5 individual protocol defs and 5 individual SPRs works but only allows 4 simultaneous connections. This server is running a complex application. The external clients always initiate the connection on one fixed port. The server application sends back to the client a random reply port within a predefined range of 999 ports (it's kind like RPC). To make matters worse we are currently hosting 3 of these servers for 3 different customers and more are on the way... There is just got to be a way to do this without having to create 1000s of protocol defs and 1000s of SPRs!!!! ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: jshepard@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: jshepard@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')