Re: [pmfirewall]-doing port forward

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: MaD MaN (joelf@ptd.net)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 23:33:17 PST

Those ports you are opening are probably only being used for those games
so you should not have any kind of issues with security. Are they only
udp protocols?? I know when I play Unreal on winblows it uses udp
protocols.

Colette Gelinas wrote:

> All port the game server need are already open in the firewall, the
> only thing lefting is to forward them to the windows server. That's
> why i was asking if rules i add to the script for port forward is ok
> and won't open any hole in the firewall. Marc
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MaD MaN
> To: pmfirewall@pointman.org
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [pmfirewall]-doing port forward
> You must also open up those ports on your firewalled
> machine to be able to forward those ports. When you open
> the ports on a firewalled machine and there are no services
> on that machine that can be accessed by opening them then
> there should be no security issues. However the machine
> that is getting the services directed to might have security
> issues, if those ports can be used in some way or another.
>
> Colette Gelinas wrote:
>
> > Hi, i'm setting up a game server on a windows masqed
> > machine using pmfirewall on my linux box. I have setup
> > ipmasdadm to be able to forward port i need. I have added
> > these rules to pmfirewall.local.rules : #echo "Enabling
> > IPPORTFW Redirection on the external LAN.."
> > #
> > /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -f
> > /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L EXTERNALIP PORT -R
> > INTERNALIP PORT EXTERNALIP = ip from ispPORT = port i want
> > to forwardINTERNALIP = ip of my masqed puter first i'd
> > like to know if rules i add are ok and are they safe ...
> > they won't open any hole in the firewall or something ???
> > Marc
>
> --
> Check it out one time!!
>
> http://www.VisualStimulation.com
>
> 

--
Check it out one time!!

http://www.VisualStimulation.com

****************************************************************************
* To UNSUBSCRIBE from the list, send a message with "unsubscribe pmfirewall"
* in the message body to majordomo@pointman.org. Please direct other
* questions, comments, or problems to pmfirewall-owner@pointman.org.
*
*           Need answers fast? Check the list archive located at:
*             http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/list-archive/
*

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jun 10 2001 - 02:39:19 PDT