Topic: Open/Closed Ports

[Vince Levalois]

Just curious if there is an easy procedure to specify opening or closing a port (or port trggering) for specific purposes.

Thank you.

Vince Levalois

[John Mackenzie]

You will find a port opening (and closing) RPM for SME5.5 and 5.6 at:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/

Once the RPM is installed, you will be able to open/close ports via the web administration e-smith manager interface.

John Mac

[Vince Levalois]

Thank you!

Is there a site that gives a step by step rpm installation procedure?

Vince Levalois

[Nik]

Hi Vince

You have to cd to the directory where the rpm is located.

Then type  ''rpm -Uvh name of rpm file.rpm''

This will install the rpm on your system note use the command without the quotes.

MFG
Nik

[Vince Levalois]

Thank you.

I've installed the rpms for Port Opening and Port Forwarding.  Port Forwarding does not work as far as I can tell.  I've opened ports for PC Anywhere 5631 and 5632 TCP/UDP respectively but I'm not seeing them open with LANGuard.  In turn PC Anywhere is not able to connect to my internal server.

Question, should I not have the packetfilter rpm installed since I'd want to use portforwarding (looks like it does the opening and the forwarding at the same time)?
Are these mutually exclusive or do they work together ok?

Also, it seems to have modified my 6010 Teleworker (IP Phone) solution Blade.  We haven't tested it yet but hopefully it doesn't screw it up.

Lastly, what's the easiest way to "uninstall" an rpm?

Thanks to anyone that can help.

Vince Levalois

[Larry]

To remove a rpm:
rpm -e dmc-mitel-portopening-0.0.1-3 (without .noarch, nor .rpm).

Then I also have questions about it:
I installed
http://linux06.chez.tiscali.fr/files_sme/rpms/sme-denyport-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
but I would like to know which is the predominant, I mean, if I deny all my ports, but open 1723 TCP, will it work?

Some more, like Vince,
Since I have to port forward as well, "should I not have the packetfilter rpm installed since I'd want to use portforwarding (looks like it does the opening and the forwarding at the same time)?
Are these mutually exclusive or do they work together ok?"

PS: I have no way to go to the server itself, so I cannot try it, because if the VPN connection closes, I am dead

Can somebody confirm?

[Joseph]

Here is a link to the contrib to allow your to install rpms from your browser.

http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/install.php

Cheers
Joseph

[Cyrus Bharda]

Hellu,

I have PC Anywhere running on a PC here at work which is sitting behind a SME 5.5u6 box. Now I did follow instructions on how to do ssh tunnelling with putty and it works great for windows terminal services, but when I setup the tunnell to forward the 2 ports that PC Anywhere uses, when I try to connect from home, it shows the server, but cannot connect to it, did you get this working?

Or is there a better program to do this that only uses 1 port?

Thanks,

Cyrus Bharda

[Cyrus Bharda]

Nevermind me, google is my freind

Found tightvnc, works great with ssh tunnelling also it is just as good as windows terminal server/PC Anywhere, and its free!

www.tightvnc.com

Very easy to setup and use, but enough advertising

Cyrus Bharda