AIM for windows direct connection doens't work with firewall

[i8degrees]

Hello, AIM never lets me direct connect with anyone because of my firewall blocking the port (I guess). Any way of opening up a port, like 6699, for AIM use?

[Craig McPherson]

something like:

ipchains -A OUTPUT -i eth1 --destination-port 6699 -j ACCEPT

You might want to go ahead and change your default OUTPUT policy to ACCEPT. Unless you don't trust the users on your network, or are concerned about trojans, there's usually no need to heavily filter what goes OUT from your system, only what comes in.

[i8degrees]

Could you be more precise on that ipchains command? I tried typing that and it says I needed to specify either ICMP or TCP, something like that... Sorry, I am not very good with ipchains just yet http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Craig McPherson]

I assume AIM uses all-TCP. I dunno if it used UDP or not.

Add "-p tcp" to that command, like right after the eth1, then do the same command again with "-p udp".

Or post your current firewall script here so I can look at it and tell you what to change.