Open a range of ports with iptables

[Peter Gordon]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> FC comes with a tool for configuring the firewall - if you go to the
> System menu, Administration, Security Level and Firewall, you'll get a
> GUI that allows you to change some of the more rudimentary aspects of
> the firewall. You could use this to open up the ports you wish, but,
> that would probably mean adding 100 rules (I don't think this GUI
> understands port ranges, I could be wrong).

It does. If you go into the "Firewall Options" tab, there's a section at 
the bottom labeled "Other ports." If you expand this, you can click the 
"Add" button to its right, and in the entry for port(s) you can specify 
a range by entering the beginning and ending port numbers separated by a 
hyphen ("-").

For example, one of the settings on mine (for BitTorrent) is as follows:
Port(s): 6881-6889
Protocol: tcp

Hope that helps.
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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