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  • 1.  Location changing while away from PC

    Posted Feb 24, 2010 05:25 PM
    Using 11.0.5, we have locations set up so that there is location called roaming to download updates from liveupdate and switch on the firewall. It is set up as below:

    location 1: Subnet X (default)
    location 2: Subnet Y (Repeat for each site)
    location 3: Client computer does not connect to the management server

    All the locations for the various offices have blank firewall policies and the roaming policy basically allows all out and none in.

    The problem is, some of our clients are switching to the roaming location while the PC's are still on the same subnet. It appears to be when users are a way from there PC's so apart from some applications going offline, it's no major concern, but it is producing a heap of useless logs, that I'd rather not have rules for.

    Here is 2 examples of a block that occured when it shouldn't of:

    24/02/2010 9:40:27 AM    Blocked    5    Incoming    ETHERNET [type=0x8808]    0.0.0.0    01-80-C2-00-00-01    0    0.0.0.0    01-80-C2-00-00-01    0        user1    domain    Roaming    1    24/02/2010 9:40:16 AM    24/02/2010 9:40:16 AM    Block all other traffic

    24/02/2010 10:48:53    Blocked    5    Incoming    UDP    Swyxserv.domain [10.23.1.3]    DC-3D-20-00-01-00    0    10.23.18.61    00-05-9A-3C-78-00    0        user2    domain    Roaming    11    24/02/2010 10:47:51    24/02/2010 10:48:22    Block all other traffic

    I was under the impression that it would only go to the roaming group if the IP wasn't in one of the location in above groups and it couldn't connect to the SEPM servers, or is this incorrect?

    The only thing I can think of would be to change the last rule so that it also says not included in each subnet and list them all.


  • 2.  RE: Location changing while away from PC
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    Posted Feb 24, 2010 10:09 PM


    Can you please check for the criteria for location awareness again. Create a new policy and assign it to a new Test group try moving one client to this group and check the result. If everything is ok rename this group get all the clients to this group and delete the old group.

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