Opening ports on Fedora Firewall

ProgramGeek · 07-22-2004, 11:54 AM

Hi, I have Fedora 2 running on my desktop and I am sort of curious as to how exactly would I open a port so I can have my health status turn green (no NAT problems etc etc). Right now I'm downloading a huge porn movie, so I don't beleive it would be very logical to stop and disk losing the data by using my debian boot.

ProgramGeek

schurt · 07-22-2004, 05:12 PM

At least you're honest ;p

But you use iptables to open ports on your firewall

iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/24 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

that rule will open up ssh port 22 for the whole local network on 192.168.0.0 of course you'd have to modify it a bit to accept it on your interface/network

GL with the porn download

teet · 07-22-2004, 10:40 PM

Login to server and su to root.
type /usr/sbin/lokkit

From the menu select custom.
Leave blank next to the ethport, only mark if you want to allow all traffic.
Mark all services which remote access is to be given.
You can add additional ports by typing XX:tcp XX:udp where XX is the port number.
Save and you are ready to go.

This worked for me when I needed to open ports 6881-6889 for bit torrent (note, i also had to enable port forwarding on my router).

-teet