Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 1 includes a TFTP filter

by adrian 16. December 2008 21:52

As you may know, allowing TFTP through ISA was not an easy task in the past.

It looks that the future version of ISA, Threat Management Gateway (TMG) will include a TFTP filter, see Microsoft's About application filters article.

The TFTP filter in TMG Beta 1:

I've quickly tested it, trying to download or upload some files over a VPN connection to a TFTP server behind TMG from a VPN client. It worked very nice.

It was a straight process to allow TFTP for the VPN client, I've simply created an access rule allowing TFTP:

The TFTP filter is by default bound to the TFTP protocol:

Analyzing TMG's logs, we can see that TMG has allowed the server's response(which used to create problems, since the server chooses a different source port):

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