Re: ICMP

[Ivan Buttinoni <ivan () bware it>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Stan Anderson wrote:

> I have Citrix WinFrame 1.8 servers running behind my firewall.  For Citrix
> ICA they say you only need to open udp 1604 and tcp 1494, so I only allow
> those two ports to my servers.  My clients outside the firewall drop if they
> are connected for any legnth of time.  In my logs I see denys for ICMP to my
> servers IP addresses.  Citrix doesn't say you need to allow ICMP, but does
> anyone know if you need to.

I don't know "Citrix WinFrame 1.8 server" but it's sure that TCP need
ICMP, to work "correctly", so "any" software that use TCP ports need ICMP,
in a "perfect world" of course :).

Ivan

>       Thanks,         
>         Stan Anderson
>         ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
>         (435) 750-7794

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