Limitations of desktop firewalls

If you are running a desktop firewall that blocks access to your systems ports, you may receive warnings when starting servers, or the servers may simply fail to start. To work around the problem, you must give TCP/IP port access to the server process.

This is usually done by adding a rule which allows a particular process access to a number or range of ports.
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