Peter Smit wrote:
> I have just installed portopening and it works great
Are you sure? I'm not sure that it does anything useful. All ports about 1024 are already "open", and if there is no software on the server listening for incoming packets, then it doesn't much matter whether the packets are blocked by the packet firewall or not.
> but is
> there a way to open a port range (UDP 5004 to 65535)?
I believe that what you want to do is forward incoming packets. If you do that however, you effectively turn your LAN into a one workstation LAN, and you may as well just connect your workstation directly to the Internet.
> This is the range that Microsoft uses for messenger audio.
> The ports for files are only 9 ports so that is no problem
> but.... audio?
The problem with Microsoft messenger is that it uses quite a number of unpredictable ports. What you really want to do is to dynamically forward particular ports, and the server can only do that if it has special software installed which understands the messenger protocol and makes the appropriate changes to filtering and forwarding depending on traffic it sees flying past. This is what special masquerading modules do. See
http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/matrix22.html for more information.
Charlie
>
> Please help??
>
> A newbie who is very happy with this server!
>
> Peter Smit
1 Replies
520 Views