Allow particular Port Communication over Firewall

    The 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.

Steps to enable the 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”.and also 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.