Re: Port Ranges

  • From: "Stuart Pittwood" <SPittwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:54:21 +0100

Sorry ... I should have made clear it was inbound (web server in DMZ
with webspeed installed & Database/broker on internal LAN).

Unfortunately the initial connection isn't always on the same port, it
depends what you're doing on the web app.

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From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 21 October 2003 15:43
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Subject: [isalist] Re: Port Ranges


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Sorry; I understood this to be an outbound scenario.
You're correct; you'll need a rule per protocol definition.
As Tom was pointing out, this may be a case of a single primary port and
many secondary ports. If so, a single rule with a proper protocol
definition may well be appropriate.

The best way to tell is if :
1. the initial connection always occurs on the same port/protocol 2. it
remains open when subsequent connections are made ..then those
subsequent connections are probably secondary and can be part of a
single protocol definition.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Pittwood" <SPittwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 07:08
Subject: [isalist] Re: Port Ranges


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You can have a publishing rule with more applying to more than one
protocol definition?

That would greatly simplify things as I wouldn't have to maintain 100
definitions & publishing rules.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2003 15:00
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Subject: [isalist] Re: Port Ranges


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Rules and rule elements are separate entities.
You can have a single rule that allows multiple protocol definitions
quite easily (and it's scriptable).

  Jim Harrison
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:14:26 +0100
 "Stuart Pittwood" <SPittwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I guess it's only fast & loose if it's not used properly.

If you have an app (such as ours) which communicates to a back end
database server on several different ports which are consecutive what
difference does it make (apart from make things slower to configure) if
you create 100 rules as opposed to one rule which encompasses the whole
range.

I can see it being abused by lazy admins who would rather than open
ports 1000, 1005, 107, 1010 will just open a range of 1000-1010, but
that is a problem with the admin not software.

Anyways, no matter what, as we have ISA I have to create the definitions
so I better get off my soap box and get back to work :-)





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2003 14:10
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Sounds like PIX is being a bit fast and loose with the concept. The last
thing I need is someone getting a primary connection through on a
secondary port.

You can also script this task using your favorite COM-capable scripting
tools.

  Jim Harrison
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:58:00 +0100
 "Stuart Pittwood" <SPittwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Maybe this would be something MS should add? As it means that I have to
now create 100 different protocol definitions.  I know you can do this
on a PIX (not sure about other firewalls)

Anyways off to my isa server

Thanks Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2003 13:49
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Subject: [isalist] Re: Port Ranges


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Not if you're referring to a collection of primary connections. What you
need to do in this caase is create each individual protocol definition.
If the protocol uses a single primary port and many secondary ports,
then yes; a single definition can do the job.

  Jim Harrison
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:33:44 +0100
 "Stuart Pittwood" <SPittwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Is it possible to create a protocol definition that contains a range of
ports?

lets say I wanted to publish a server on the following TCP ports 3202 to
3302 would I need to create 100 different protocol definitions?

Regards

Stu

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