Re: UDP Ports

Samuel Gordon-Stewart <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:23:56 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.smoothwall.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:43:53 -0700, Davis, Lawrence
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I did a port scan of my smoothwall at home and I've noticed that I
> only have 2 tcp ports open (the ones I've opened), but that I have a few
> thousand udp ports open. 

Where did you run the scan from? If you ran it from green, then it is
perfectly normal for ports to be shown as open, if however you ran it
from red, then this is more of a concern, although UDP scans are much
less reliable than TCP scans due to the fact that UDP does not contain
error correction, whilst TCP does.

samuel
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