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olskar

12-05-2004 03:53 PM

How to open port 6891?

How do I open port 6891 so I can send files with aMSN?

karlan

12-05-2004 05:17 PM

you may unable if isp blocks it, also, do you have a linksys router or similar?

olskar

12-06-2004 02:39 PM

No i do not have a linksys router or similar. can you tell me what to write in the terminal to open it?

Krugger

12-08-2004 10:05 PM

asssuming your trouble is the local firewall you can write as root:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 6891 -j ACCEPT

I am not sure about the tcp part because I am not certain it is tcp, but it sound like a bad idea to send the file over udp, so ...

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