How do you unblock ports in Shorewall for Xmule low id?

[plexustech]

I'm running xmule from my gentoo box, which is also running my Shorewall firewall. Although it works, I always get the inevitable "low id" error because it claims that the needed ports are unreachable. How do I get around this? In the "Firewall Rules" section of administering Shorewall via webmin, I have the following settings:

[miunk]

I think that you need 4662 TCP and 4666 UDP. You also need high ports open for all the connections you make. I am not sure if my solution is best, but I use iptables and am currently accepting from the net on ports:

4662:65534

mldonkey works with this configuration, and my lower-port services appear to be protected. However, opening such a gaping hole in my firewall and assuming it is safe may just be naive.

[plexustech]

[ronmon]

Just an aside, it is bad etiquette to post the same thread in multiple forums.

[Terminal]

This is the shorewall config I use to fix lowid problems. Each system has it's own port which you can set easily enough. Some servers still complain about lowids (I think they want port 4662 only), but none of the good ones, so I don't miss them. You don't need to unblock any massive port ranges, those connections are opened by your system, so as long as you have unlimited access to zone net you'll be fine.

[smith]

this may just be what I am looking for..

thx
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