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Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:14:17 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Help with netstat -s

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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:10:13 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>Blocking inbound connections reduces traffic on the LAN, but really does
>not accomplish much. The only port I bother to block is 1900 because it
>tends to be noisy.

I block both outbound and (especially) inbound NetBIOS traffic (ports 137, 138 and 139).
I don't know if you remember, but I was getting a lot of unwanted inbound traffic to those
ports.
HCM

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