Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking

Daniel Golding dgolding at burtongroup.com
Tue Feb 15 21:18:01 UTC 2005



Why block TFTP at your borders? To keep people from loading new versions of
IOS on your routers? ;)

Not trying to be flippant, but what's the basis for this?

- Dan

On 2/15/05 1:45 PM, "Eric Gauthier" <eric at roxanne.org> wrote:

> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:53:59AM -0600, Adi Linden wrote:
>>>> How is this any different then blocking port 25 or managing the bandwidth
>>>> certain applications use.
> 
> Something else to consider.  We block TFTP at our border for security reasons
> and we've found that this prevents Vonage from working.  Would this mean that
> LEC's can't block TFTP?
> 
> Eric :)





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