Which of the three networks are you setting 8080 to be open and did you
specify tcp/ip/etc?

Jon

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM, John Hornbuckle <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  I’m sure I’m missing something small here, but it’s driving me crazy.
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> I have a Win7 machine running an app that listens for traffic on port 8080.
> For the life of me, I can’t get the (built-in) firewall to allow the traffic
> in. I created an inbound rule to allow all traffic across port 8080, but to
> no avail. I tried another rule to allow all inbound traffic to the app
> itself—again, no luck. The firewall logs show the traffic being blocked
> (event ID 5157).
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> I’m just stumped. I’ve done this plenty of times with other machines and
> other apps, and have never had this happen.
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> What the heck am I missing?
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