Sarah,
Thanks for the response. I'm using Windows XP/2003 so I guess I'm stuck
with generating several rules, and that's not so much a problem, I was just
wondering if I needed to write a script.
Thanks again for the information,
DLN
"Sarah Wahlert [MSFT]" <sarah.wahlert[ at ]microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > What version of Windows are you using? For Windows Vista, you can use
> netsh advfirewall or the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in
> to create a rule to accept all traffic from an IP address. If you are
> using Windows XP SP2, you can't create such a rule.
>
> "DLN" <dnadon_nospm[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e5XALwdsHHA.484[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been looking through netsh related documentation in regards to the
>> Windows Firewall. I'm hoping that I've overlooked something obvious, but
>> it seems that I have to always specify a port number in the rule when it
>> is created. Is it possible to create a rule that instructs Windows
>> Firewall to accept all traffic from a specific IP address (regardless of
>> port) or do I need to create 65535 rules to accomplish this? Writing a
>> netsh script to accomplish this isn't a problem, but what sort of impact
>> will that number of rules have on the overall performance of the server?
>> Alternatively, is there some way to specify a port range for a given
>> host?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> DLN
>>
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