Re: how to oepen a port

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:32:54 +0200
"abdelkader belahcene" <abelahcene@gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for reply,
> 
> this is a general question, I want to know how to open/ close a port
> 
> best regards
> 
> bela

Please don't top post.
Ports are not filtered unless you have iptable rules blocking them.  If
there's no application listening on a given port, it is referred to as
closed, otherwise it is open.  Firewall software in linux is a higher
level interface to raw iptables.  There are GUIs such as Firehol and
Guarddog, and config-file driven scripts such as Shorewall.  'apt-cache
search firewall'

Celejar
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