[FADCA] Portmapper

[Gregg Britton]

Maybe this will help.  To allow a program to talk through Zone Alarm just go
through the following steps:

1. In Zone Alarm look under PROGRAM CONTROL
2. Choose the programs TAB
3. ADD the program to the list - ( I guess it's portmapper.exe )
4. Once it's added, highlight the portmapper.exe line and click the OPTIONS
button
5. In the Program options window, choose the EXPERT RULES TAB
6. Click ADD to add a new rule
   Rank = 1
   Name = Portmapper
   State = Enabled
   Action = Allow
   Track = Alert and Log
   Source = Any
   Destination = Any
   Protocol = Any
   Time = Any
7. Click the OK button to close and save the rule
8. Click OK to close program options
9. Click the close window 'X' to send Zone Alarm back to your task bar.

These steps will allow the choosen program to talk on any port to any
destination ip address.  The Protocol setting will allow you to choose which
port it talks on (ie. restrict it to one or two ports).  The Destination
setting will allow you to talk to a specific ip address.

More info on each setting is in the Zone Alarm help file under "Creating
expert firewall rules "

Hope that helps....

Gregg Britton
N6ZUE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Sinbine" <n4xeo at bellsouth.net>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Portmapper


> At 11:49 AM 8/29/2004, you wrote:
> >Bill
> >  that would be great  the only firewall i have running is zonealarm and
thee
> >is no way to acually open a certain port  i can give the program  the ok
to
> >be a server on my computer and /or the internet  that i have done in the
> >modem i have placed the bbs computer in the open zone
> >  that allows conects  to and from the machine all thiose i do a telnet
with
> >that has static address's it works fine  but to the ones who dont  it
don't
> >work right been kind of a mystery because portmapper seems to be a simple
> >program not much you can set up or do to it .
> >   Charlie K4GBB and myself have fought this for about a year  with to no
> >avale
> >  thanks John
>
> Hi John
> There is a way to open ports for a program to use in zone alarm. I can't
> and don't remember how right now but I had to do it to let echolink go
out.
> If you go to the echolink web site they have a page on fire walls and how
> to do it for their program. You can just use that info for port mapper.  I
> know that port mapper works as I'm running it from a 98 box to a XP box...
>
> Think about it .....
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
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>
> Bill Sinbine
> n4xeo at bellsouth.net
>
>
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