On Friday 15 Apr 2005 05:13, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
>
> But when I checked Shorewall, the BT ports were not open! So I opened them.
> But then I realized that my hardware firewall/router was probably blocking
> these connections too. I have an SMC Barricade 7004-AWBR wireless broadband
> router. It took a while to decipher what I had to do, because they don't
> call it "port forwarding" like everyone else. They call it "Special
> Applications". I had to tell it that when it sees an outgoing connection on
> port 6969, it is to allow incoming connections on ports 6881-6889 (you
> can't just tell it to leave incoming ports open all the time, there has to
> be an outgoing trigger).
>
Thanks for this, Ron.  Mine is a Barricade 7401BRA - much more primitive, I 
think.  It does call it 'port forwarding' but can only open one port at a 
time, with a maximum of 20, so a tcp and udp on one port uses two.  I have 
some ports open for GnomeMeeting so everything's used up.  It's a real PITA.

I'm saving your info in case we decide to upgrade.  It's good to know that one 
works pretty well as we would like it to.

Anne
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