Airport and Firewalls

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SimonB

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I have a problem with iChat and my work around is to turn my computer firewall off (I have tried opening the ports that I thought were needed but this did not help). I connect to the internet using an airport base station. How exposed am I?
 
You should read the article bob posted and learn how to open those ports on a firewall. I go through two firewalls with no problem when I opened those ports. Apple's iChat work fine.

Going straight open on the net today is not the smartest thing. Take a look at the port scans on your firewall logs and you will see what I am talking about.
 
Thanks

I have now done this and opened these ports. No luck. Also opened 1080.

5060, 5190, 5297, 5298, 5678, 16384-16403

Again, turning off the firewall solves the problem.

Simon
 
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