Blocked UDP ports

Carl Friis-Hansen ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com
Wed Sep 17 18:43:46 UTC 2008


Dean C. Cole wrote:
> *I have Ubuntu 8.04.1 installed.  I also have Wine 1.0 and Firestarter 
> installed with the firewall disabled.  Then I install a VOI program 
> called Echolink under Wine.  The firewall test in the Echolink program 
> complains that UDP ports 5198 and 5198 are blocked.  And "of course" 
> this all works fine on this computer with XP.  Ha.  Ha.  Any 
> suggestions?  Dean
> *

I assume the problem is in-bound. You need to create an in-bound rule 
using firestarter to allow for input to port 5198 or allow all inbound 
traffic, in which case you could just as well un-install firestarter.

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