RE: Client Firewall Settings

"m3lk0rz ..." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.bopm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>The client is now in beta testing, and seems to work well, but users with 
>firewalls can only connect if >they either turn off their firewalls or set 
>them to allow all traffic, both TCP and UDP.

That doesn't sound to me like a problem with having BOPMs, unless you mean 
that there are people running firewalls that will automatically block the 
server host for X seconds after detecting a portscan. In that case, they 
would need to set an advanced rule so that all traffic is allowed to the IP 
address of the server(s) that they connect to. I'm not sure what the problem 
is that they would need to open up all TCP and UDP(which BOPM doesn't touch) 
traffic for, unless they have a very poorly-configurable firewall.

>Thanks in advance,
>
>Roberto Waldteufel

-Jay
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