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Firewall Disabled?

Holger_S

Hi!

SESC 9.5 firewall is telling me that it's deactivated but it appears to work? Since a few days I have this strange thing that the tray bar icon is indicating a yellow exclamation mark. The tooltip tells me that the firewall configuration is letting through all data traffic. In the SESC 9.5 GUI the firewall entry says "deactivated", active location: "primary".

I tried to reconfigure the firewall but in the fw config menu the checkbox for "allow all data traffic" is disabled for the primary location. I haven't configured any secondary location.

This all started a few days ago after the update for the engine was distributed. I haven't installed it and just hibernated my win xp for several days. But then suddenly, there was a message telling me the system wanted to connect to my local network on 192.168.178.255 on UDP port 137 what I initially disallowed. It followed another alert for a connection to another LAN computer on UDP port 55400 which I disallowed, too. But then the internet connection didn't work any more so that I restarted the system. Nevertheless, this activated the SESC update but didn't solve the connection block so that I removed both firewall rules.

After another restart I got the UDP 137 alert again and allowed it as well as the UDP 55400 to the LAN computer. Now, the internet connection works again. The firewall says it has been disabled but it still prompts me from time to time with HTTP-connection requests from the SVCHOST-Service which I generally block by adding new rules each time. So the firewall appears to work from my point of view and I don't get the impression that all data traffic is going through.

What is this all about? As anyone experienced the same issue or has anybody an idea how to solve it?

Thanks in advance,

Holger

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    Hi Christian,

    trustworthy traffic company

    It's probably written in the Beförderungsbedingungen (terms of transportation for our those not fluent in German) ... he was just doing it by the book. You don't want him to get mugged because he carries enough change with him to see you a ticket when all you have is a €50 note, do you?

    Even if this is becoming a kind of off-topic:

    Of course it was written in the terms of transportation that changes would be given only up to 10,- Euros. However, this doesn't contribute to your happiness if you stand in the pouring rain with 6 °C outside temperature and watch the backlights of the bus going the way without you because the only money you' had in your pocket was a 50 Euro note. Being a polite person as I am, I called the transportation company afterwards to let them participate in the tremendous joy that was created by this event and to discuss the striking analogy of their terms of transportation with these of a provincial one man rickshaw familiy business located somewhere in the suburbs of East Asia with a criminality rate of 5% murders per citizen per year. And what I have to bring up against this this bus-driver - whom I have in mind as being a very unfriendly person (but maybe my memory has a little bias here) - is that I was told that for these incidents there is the option to fill in a certificate of debt in the bus and to pay it at one of the company's offices within one week. So the driver either didn't know or - which is a more suiting explanation for my paranoid mind - didn't want me to tell in order to avoid some formality. It's really a hard life if the whole world is against you and the only one who's being wronged is yourself - I can tell. Well, the more I think about this event the clearer it becomes to me that there might be another explanation, too. It's just because the number of the bus line was 137...

    Kind regards,

    Holger

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    Hi Christian,

    trustworthy traffic company

    It's probably written in the Beförderungsbedingungen (terms of transportation for our those not fluent in German) ... he was just doing it by the book. You don't want him to get mugged because he carries enough change with him to see you a ticket when all you have is a €50 note, do you?

    Even if this is becoming a kind of off-topic:

    Of course it was written in the terms of transportation that changes would be given only up to 10,- Euros. However, this doesn't contribute to your happiness if you stand in the pouring rain with 6 °C outside temperature and watch the backlights of the bus going the way without you because the only money you' had in your pocket was a 50 Euro note. Being a polite person as I am, I called the transportation company afterwards to let them participate in the tremendous joy that was created by this event and to discuss the striking analogy of their terms of transportation with these of a provincial one man rickshaw familiy business located somewhere in the suburbs of East Asia with a criminality rate of 5% murders per citizen per year. And what I have to bring up against this this bus-driver - whom I have in mind as being a very unfriendly person (but maybe my memory has a little bias here) - is that I was told that for these incidents there is the option to fill in a certificate of debt in the bus and to pay it at one of the company's offices within one week. So the driver either didn't know or - which is a more suiting explanation for my paranoid mind - didn't want me to tell in order to avoid some formality. It's really a hard life if the whole world is against you and the only one who's being wronged is yourself - I can tell. Well, the more I think about this event the clearer it becomes to me that there might be another explanation, too. It's just because the number of the bus line was 137...

    Kind regards,

    Holger

    :6091
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