Make sure you are allowing those ports with IP chains and I would suggest using portfw instead of autofw. - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: Marc To: Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: ipchains....opening tcp and udp specific ports with Mandrake 7 kernel 2.2.14 > Hello all, > Need some help opening specific tcp udp ports. I've read the ipchains how > to and the firewall how to , but I guess I just can't quite comprehend what > I need to do to open specific ports so some programs on my winblows boxes > can reach the net. > One of the ports that I need open is 27960 udp and tcp. > According to the web sight of one of these software companies you have to > add these lines to open the proper ports for their software to > work......well these are old and apparently dont work with the 2.2 > kernel...here they are: > ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r udp 2300 2400 -h www.xxx.yyy.zzz (ip of box behind > firewall) > ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -r tcp 2300 2400 -h ......... > ipmasqadm autow -A -v -r tcp 47624 47624 -h ....... > ipmasqadm autow -A -v -r udp 47624 47624 -h ..... > ipmasqadm autow -A -v -r udp 28800 28900 -h ....... > I tried this and it did not work .....I need to know the ipchains > equivalent of these commands???? Please help!! If you need any other info > let me know. > > Thanks > Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss