Opening Ports on my Firewall

[gassman]

Hi I run SuSe 9.2 and am trying to open some ports on my firewall. I checked YaSt and couldnt figure it out any help is appreciated

[gassman]

nobody can help with me opening ports in my firewall??

[bigtomrodney]

If you mean opening Ports you can do this in YaST by going to Security > Firewall then pressing the advanced button and specifying port numbers. If you need to forward a port you may want to look at iptables, unless it is in relation to your router. In this case portforwarding can be done on its own configuration through ssh/telnet/web.

[sharkyro]

Firestarter is a very nice GUI for managing your IPTables. You can easily set up & configure your firewall with it.

[gassman]

Let me elaberate on what im trying to do. I was using Azureus to dowload Mepis iso and my smily stayed Yellow so I naturally figured I needed to open these ports on my firewall. Am I right??

[bigtomrodney]

Yup you need to set 6881 tcp and udp to open (at least). I believe that it actually at times uses 6881 - 6891. It can be set in the Advanced section of firewall under YaST as mentioned. Also if you are using a router you will need to portforward to your IP address.

[gassman]

I'm not using a router and having troubles with the firewall setting in Yast. All I can find is a section where it asks me to open ports on my server but im not running a server.

[bigtomrodney]

Hi -
thought this might help a bit...
You need to go to the allowed services part of the firewall configuration. Fom there click the advanced button and you can add the ports of the required type. I don't see it there, but I would not worry about the use of the word 'server'. It's can mean just an application, your OS in the role it plays or simply just because linux was designed as a server OS (in the sense that Unix is a server OS). Of course it could just mean a server...

I hope the image below helps a bit.