> Source: [sk117975](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk117975)

# sk117975 - Services configured as Excluded for IPSec tunnel are not being excluded

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk117975 |
| Date Created | 2017-06-07 |
| Last Modified | 2019-08-07 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |

## Symptoms

- * VPN Community is configured to exclude a range of services: TCP ports 444 to 65535.  

  Traffic that uses one of those ports (for example, Microsoft Remote Desktop on TCP port 3389) is not excluded from the tunnel and is encrypted.  

* Experience the same issue on UDP with same port range.

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