Opening ports in Firewall

In Tiger this is easy to do: just create a new connection in the Firewall tab and enter the TCP and UDP ports you want to use. However, I can't find out how to do this in Leopard. The Firewall tab allows you to create new connections, but then restricts you to to either allow or disallow connections for specific applications. Where can I SPECIFY which ports to use?

For example, for the new Home Sharing feature of iTunes 9, I need TCP ports 3689 & 49152 open, and UDP port 5353 open. How can I confirm that they are open?

What if I add software that requires specific ports open; how will Leopard know which ones?

Message was edited by: romad

Active: iMac (G5, G4), Powerbook G4, iPhone, iPod, MP2100 Retired: iMac G3, A2c, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Mac OS 10.5.8, Mac OS 9.2.2, iPhone OS 3.0, Newton OS 2.1

Posted on Oct 30, 2009 9:11 AM

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