Messenger ports

Can anyone help me with Ports to open in Firewall for MSN 7.5 and Messenger
8?

Greetings,

All of them. Seriously, features like voice use random ports from 5004 through 65535 so just
allow Messenger to have full access to the Internet connection.

If by "firewall" you mean a router, for Messenger to work properly, it should support
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) which it probably does (you may just have turn it on) and it
will automatically open and forward the necessary ports for you.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Yaacov Klapisch" <> wrote in message
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> Can anyone help me with Ports to open in Firewall for MSN 7.5 and Messenger 8?
>

Thanks for the reply.
I mean "Firewall" and not router. We have an intranet with 120 users. Some
50 have Messenger. the others use Yahoo or ICQ.
I saw an answer in a previous post with a link to a Win2000 that gave ports
for the Messenger file transfer protocol. Are these ports the same for
Messenger 8?


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:%23%...
> Greetings,
>
> All of them. Seriously, features like voice use random ports from 5004
> through 65535 so just allow Messenger to have full access to the Internet
> connection.
>
> If by "firewall" you mean a router, for Messenger to work properly, it
> should support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) which it probably does (you
> may just have turn it on) and it will automatically open and forward the
> necessary ports for you.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "Yaacov Klapisch" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Can anyone help me with Ports to open in Firewall for MSN 7.5 and
>> Messenger 8?
>>
>
>

Hi,

Depends if the post was from me, if yes than yes.

If you're using an intranet just "opening the port" probably won't do much anyway (if we're
talking standard NAT, obviously ISA server etc. are in a different class).

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--


"Yaacov Klapisch" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Thanks for the reply.
> I mean "Firewall" and not router. We have an intranet with 120 users. Some 50 have
> Messenger. the others use Yahoo or ICQ.
> I saw an answer in a previous post with a link to a Win2000 that gave ports for the
> Messenger file transfer protocol. Are these ports the same for Messenger 8?
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
> news:%23%...
>> Greetings,
>>
>> All of them. Seriously, features like voice use random ports from 5004 through 65535 so
>> just allow Messenger to have full access to the Internet connection.
>>
>> If by "firewall" you mean a router, for Messenger to work properly, it should support
>> Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) which it probably does (you may just have turn it on) and
>> it will automatically open and forward the necessary ports for you.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Yaacov Klapisch" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Can anyone help me with Ports to open in Firewall for MSN 7.5 and Messenger 8?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>