zone alarm port forwarding

[barneygumble742]

hi,

i'm running zone alarm at home but also use a few unique programs where i specify the port to use. and also tell the router to leave that port open to the internet so the program can access the internet. but with zone alarm running, how can i tell zone alarm the same thing i told the router?

in zone alarm, i can exclude ip addresses and ranges. but i couldn't find out how to allow port traffic all incoming requests.

thanks

[Aedan]

You don't need to tell Zone Alarm that.

The reason you need to tell the router, is so that it knows where to send the packet when it passes it across to your home network, as there might be multiple machines waiting for data.

Zone Alarm runs on just a single computer, so there's no question as to where the data should go - if your machine recieves a packet of data, then it must belong to your machine.

Instead, you can just tell Zone Alarm that these programs are allowed to listen to the internet. Then when they open a port, Zone Alarm will automatically allow them.

[barneygumble742]

i understand that. either my home ip changed (dhcp) or zone alarm is blocking it. but it shouldn't because its not running as a service and my home pc is on the windows logon screen. i'm trying to remote admin. the funny thing is that when i'm on the desktop and zone alarm is shut down, everything seems to run fine.