Firewall / Port Forwarding

I have 4 stupid Windoz boxes sitting behind a Linux RH 5.2 DHCP
Server/Firewall, that's the only way I would trust a Windoz box to connect
to the internet. It was setup by a friend that has moved away.

My wife wants to use (and my daughter) MP3 players for downloading music.
Last week I subscribed to a service to download music, everything works
great until I go to download my selected music, then nothing happens. After
looking through mp3advance's help pages they state:

If behind a firewall:

Forward TCP port 6346
Forward TCP ports 1215 and 1216

How do I do this and is it hard? I am a newbee but I'm willing to try if
someone out there is willing to point the way. Linux is great but I don't
work with it on a daily baises.

As a matter of fact my Linux DHCP Server / Firewall box has not caused me
one minute of problems. It just works!


Carter B. Bennett
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Carter B. Bennett

"Carter B. Bennett" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>I have 4 stupid Windoz boxes sitting behind a Linux RH 5.2 DHCP
>Server/Firewall, that's the only way I would trust a Windoz box to connect
>to the internet. It was setup by a friend that has moved away.

Assuming that's not a typo and you really are running RH 5.2, I'd be almost as
worried about the Linux box as I was about the Windows boxes. RH 5.2 hasn't
been supported for years, so unless you're manually updating all the software
(and the kernel) on it, it's probably got a number of vulnerabilities in
it.

> Forward TCP port 6346
> Forward TCP ports 1215 and 1216

Redhat 5.2 uses ipfwadm for configuring the firewall. There's an FAQ on
that tool here:

http://www.fwtk.org/ipfwadm/faq/ipfwadm-faq.html

and there's more documentation here:

http://www.xos.nl/resources/ipfwadm/

Cheers,

Paul

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