James Newburrie wrote:

> Hello All,
> I have a bit of a problem and I am not sure how to go about fixing it.  As it
> goes Telstra Bigpond Advance cable sends a heart beat on port 5050, it is a
> UDP packet, and the built in iptables under mandrake don't let this through,
> so my connection drops in a most regular fashion.  I read the documentation
> but I still don't know how to open port 5050 in the IP Tables.

IANA specifies port 5050 as
mmcc            5050/tcp   multimedia conference control tool
mmcc            5050/udp   multimedia conference control tool

but it is most commonly used for eggdrops and the like.
Are you running a service on port 5050?
netstat -na | grep 5050

Kevin



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