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How to configure your firewall

To configure firewall on a Windows operating system:

  1. Open Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall > Advanced Settings. Firewall Windows Advanced

  2. Select Inbound rules, then click New rule. Firewall Windows New Rule

  3. In a new rule, you can specify the required port, protocol, profile the rule is applied to and assign the rule name. For ports and protocols used by Resilio Active Everywhere, see Ports Protocols Required by Resilio Active Everywhere.

To configure firewall on a Linux system:

  1. You'll need root privileges to add changes to your iptables. Please use the following command to add rules to iptables:
    iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport <destinantion_port> -j ACCEPTThis command will add a new rule to the top of your INPUT chain to allow incoming TCP packets to the specified port. For more information on ports required by Resilio Active Everywhere, see Ports Protocols Port Forwarding.

  2. If you want to make your iptables permanent so as not to get them reset every reboot, use the iptables-save > <your_filename> command to save the current iptables status to a file, then load iptables on boot using the iptables-restore <your_filename> command.
    You can place the command for loading rules to the /etc/rc.local file or any other script which executes upon boot.