Network packet question.

[Mike Klinke]

On Monday 13 February 2006 11:19, Steven W. Orr wrote:
 
>
> My firewall allows outgoing auth packets. i.e., packets with
> destination ports set to 113(auth). Also, My firewall does not
> allow incoming packets with destination ports of 113(auth)
>
> It doesn't make any sense to me. I am the 207.172.210.41 and I
> seem to be the src and the src port is 113 which makes no sense
> at all. How is it possible for my server to be trying to connect
> to a remote machine with src port 113?
>
> Does this make sense?
>

Do you have a mail server, or another server, behind this firewall 
that is trying to use ident ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt ) 
on the incoming client connections?

Regards, Mike Klinke