Topic: how to open a port sme 6.0 PLEASE HELP !

[niceguy]

Hello all,

I'm trying to leave a port opened for an application we use over our network, this application need to open a port let say 33000. It's not port forwarding i need but allow packets on this port coming & going...
i tried this
/sbin/iptables --append INPUT -p udp --dport 33000 -i $OUTERIF -j ACCEPT in templates /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/rc.d/init.d/masq/42AllowPacket
didn't work, don't really know what to do
Help would be really much appreciate  
Thank you all

[Anonymous]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=8446.0

Check this out.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to leave a port opened for an application we use over our network, ...

Unless your application actually runs on the server, there's no value in opening ports on the server. Any (outgoing) ports *used* by an application running *behind* the server will be opened automatically. Any incoming ports *to* your application will need to be forwarded, not opened on the server.

Charlie