how can you open a range of ports (service pack 2) MS firewall

[Guest]

ok playstaion and service pack 2 firewall

for say SOCOM II Scee say you need the following ports open

tcp 10070-10080
udp 10070 and 6000-6999

so if you need to open a port over a network with MS firewall

how can you open a range as it wont let you use any characters in the number
field

ie 6000-6999 i dont fancy setting up 999 differant ports

any help from microsoft is this a bug ?

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Five!

I don't need to open ports manually with the XP firewall.
When the application needs access, it pops up a request
and I accept it. That's the beauty of XP UPnP Firewall!

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| ok playstaion and service pack 2 firewall
|
| for say SOCOM II Scee say you need the following ports open
|
| tcp 10070-10080
| udp 10070 and 6000-6999
|
| so if you need to open a port over a network with MS firewall
|
| how can you open a range as it wont let you use any characters in the number
| field
|
| ie 6000-6999 i dont fancy setting up 999 differant ports
|
| any help from microsoft is this a bug ?
|

 

[Neil Dela Osa]

I did a GOOGLE search for this and couldn't find a specific solution to your
problem. It's possible one of the links below has an automated way of
scripting this via a policy.


I found the generic instructions for the firewall

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/ports.mspx

Here's some more specific information

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875357


Deployment guidelines

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1&displaylang=en


Another KB article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242

 

[Guest]

cheers for that
I sort of worked that out after for normal programs

but thats not possible for socom II as you can say openup access for socom II.
it maybe that its not blocked anyway ??

surely opening up all ports isnt a good idea over the incoming local area
connection
otherwise its like switching off the firewall.

 

[Guest]

cheers for those links
very simular to what i did and the first one is the reason i thought there
might be hope
as even microsoft says open a range ...

on a page saying "how to open ports"...

but typicaly no actual example of a range being opend .. just a single port ..

and theres the other bit that says hackinto the registry.. but thats for
some sort of microsoft service's ?

not the local and dialUP net ..