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How to open ports on hardware firewall?

Hi!

I have a wireless connection, through a Westell Versalink router. I recently upgraded my version of ndiswrapper, which allowed me to get my IP through DHCP, and thus the firewall comes into play. ever since the upgrade to the new ndiswrapper (and automatic IP) GAIM, GTK-GNUTELLA, and aMULE do not work. On windows eMULE doesn't work. I turned off the firewall settings on my router and everything worked fine. Now there is only one catch, my parents want to have the firewall settings on medium, which means all the ports I need are blocked. Now I'm a total router newbie, and I couldn't find any legible documents on how to unblock the ports I need.

1. How can I get access to (for example) port 1024, and 2048 (gaim) on my router rules?
2. How can I open ports UDP 4662, and TCP 4672 on my router rules?

Other information:

OS: Fedora Core 3
Wireless works fine
I know the password to the router and I can change ports (I just need to know how).

I'm not quite the expert, but I think you might be looking for port forwarding and/or port triggering. Both were showin in the pdf manual I found for your router, but also found a couple of pages.

http://www.portforward.com/westell/V...forwarding.htm
http://www.portforward.com/westell/V...triggering.htm

HTH

alright, here is something I don't understand.

I put in

Name aMULE
TCP
global ports 4662
base host port 4662

UDP
global ports 4672
base host port 4672

and the amule connection times out all the time.

I also tried forwarding ports for GAIM.

Name: GAIM
TCP
global port 1024
base host port 1024

TCP
global port 2048
base host port 2048

and in GAIM Manually Specify range of ports to listen on is checked off.

GAIM won't connect.

Is this something wrong with Fedora Core 3?

edit

its the ports on the firewall. I did something to make gtk-gnutella work, I added these lines in the firewall rules (I think thats what did it)

This is my code for gtk-gnutella, in both incoming, and outcoming sections of the firewall rules.

Code:

pass to port 6346 >> state, done

but I have these codes in my rules also for amule. which doesn't work,
these are the tcp, and udp ports

Code:

pass to port 4672 >> state, done

pass to port 4662 >> state, done

what needs to be done to fix amule?