How to Allow a Particular Port Communication over Firewall

Today i am going to share a small tip which well-known already. These days firewall is always enable in professional environment due to security issue. Sometime during testing, we need some ports which should be allowed to communicate over enabled firewall.

Let’s see how we can allow a particular port communication over enabled Firewall:

Step 1: Navigate to Control Panel->All Control Panel Items>Windows Firewall

Step 2: Click on Advance settings link

Step 3: Click on “Inbound Rules”

Step 4: Click on “New Rule”

Step 5: Select “Port” and click on “Next”

Step 6: Enter the port number in “Specific local ports” and click on next

Step 7: Select “Allow the connection” and click on next

Step 8: In this section you can choose in which network you want allow this port for communication purpose.

Step 9: You can give name of port (it can be anything like general name)

Step 10: You can see the added port as below. You can disable, delete or modify the rule anytime.

You can also configure outbound/outgoing communication of port using same process but you need to select “Outbound Rule” instead of “Inbound Rule”.

Additionally, you can also block the port or allow communication only when connection is secure. Same way you can also allow/block any application over enabled firewall.

Happy Exploring!!