On 8/2/05, Jeff Scott <jscott at padcomusa dot com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I can connect to external machines on port 25.  Notice however,
> that this error is coming FROM port 25 on our internal mail server.
> Which tells me it is a response to an inbound connection.  Our server is
> way overpowered for the number of users that we have and I don't expect
> it to be losing packets.  These blocked packets are only sporadic and I
> have not yet noticed any issue with the mail server.  But, it does
> concern me that I don't understand why anything from the LAN would be
> blocked to the WAN when I have an allow all rule?
> 

http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-legit-traffic-dropped.html

-Chris