Re: [LUG] Blueyonder accounts...

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alex Charrett wrote:
| Quoting Pete Hatton <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
|
|
|>>A friend of mine had recently subscribed to the cable
|>>internet service from blueyonder, after recieving many many
|>>attepmted connction to his bootp port on his win98 box he
|>>called them up and asked what was going on (he uses blackice)
|>>It would appear as though they require to be able to access
|>>particuar ports on his box..
|>>
|>>Can anyone see a reason behind this ? I sure can't, i fan ISP
|>>of mine did that i would be MOST disgruntled and do lots of
|>>question asking till i got to the bottom of this.
|>>
|>>If there is a good reason for this behavour, then i'll let
|>>him know, if not i'll send him back to their tech ppl.
|>
|>The IP address for the cable connection is assign using DHCP which IIRC
|>need ports 68 and 69 to be open (The network experts will correct me)
|>
|>My connection here is assigned by DHCP, and once it has the IP, the
|>Iptables firewall kicks in.
|
|
| 68 is bootp and 69 is tftp.   Handy if you're setting up a server for
a remote
| diskless workstation to hang off but shouldn't be necessary for this
| application.
|
| Alex.
|

Thats what i figured.... it is the bootp port that gets a hammering... i
suppose i could advise him to leave this one port open ? or is that not
sucha smart move. Any ISP i have used never probed my ports ever, but if
thats what they need...

Neil
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