https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261428#M33675 Dear All<BR />I need to open a couple of ports in the range of 6380-6392, 443 2163 and 2162.<BR /><BR />How do I do it.<BR />A bit of detail procedure of how to do it is required<BR />Thanks in advance <BR />'Faizer Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:56:33 GMT Faizer Jameel 2008-09-02T06:56:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261428#M33675 Dear All<BR />I need to open a couple of ports in the range of 6380-6392, 443 2163 and 2162.<BR /><BR />How do I do it.<BR />A bit of detail procedure of how to do it is required<BR />Thanks in advance <BR />'Faizer Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:56:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261428#M33675 Faizer Jameel 2008-09-02T06:56:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261429#M33676 Check in you firewal rules for blocking and change it.<BR /><BR />What do you want to do exactly ? Install specific application, listening on that ports ? <BR /><BR />regards,<BR />ivan Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:04:15 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261429#M33676 Ivan Krastev 2008-09-02T07:04:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261430#M33677 Please update me on how to do this.<BR />Thanks Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:45:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261430#M33677 Faizer Jameel 2008-09-02T07:45:16Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261431#M33678 frankly speaking, you cannot open or close a port. <BR /><BR />process or daemon itself can open ports. so you first identify, which process can open the ports that you specified. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:03:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261431#M33678 Jeeshan 2008-09-02T08:03:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261432#M33679 To Check whether the Process is running and listening on the ports <BR /><BR />netstat -an | grep port number <BR /><BR />or netstat -tulp | grep port number <BR /><BR />or Just telnet ipaddress portnumber if the session opens the port is open and listening .<BR /><BR />To check if the firewall is enabled .<BR />service iptables status<BR /><BR /><BR />Karthik Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:58:18 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-open-ports-in-linux/m-p/4261432#M33679 Karthikeyan.j 2008-09-05T04:58:18Z