Tech Question - Ports

[n_v]

Does anyone know of software that can open ports. I know there is freeware that can scan and then close ports, but what about opening ports? How does one do that?? I am running Windows 2000 Pro.

Thanks

 

[baci2004]

In WINXP you can do it by going into the advanced tab under the "local area connection' properties; this doesn't actually give you the port numbers, just services. The best way to do it is to get a router and administer the ports that way.

What are you tring to do? Maybe I can help.

 

[jpf]

Different applications open different ports to carry out the necessary communication. For example, web servers (by default) open port 80 so that browsers can connect to it. It would be simple for someone to write a program that just did "open" calls on ports but the program wouldn't do anything. Crackers would be able to see the ports but they wouldn't be able to do anything with them either because they are really looking for the services to exploit that use the open ports.