
Configuring your firewall for running a Quinn server
Quinn servers must be able to receive incoming network connections on the TCP ports 31459 thru 31463. (Quinn uses port 31459 by default, but switches to the other ports if it is in use.) To allow this, you must configure Mac OS Xs software firewall as described below. If you are behind a router, switch, gateway, or hardware firewallthat is, a device which performs Network Address Translation (NAT), you may also need to configure that device to do port forwarding on the ports named above. This generally includes all situations where multiple computers share one publicly-visible IP address, most commonly: computers on a home network sharing a cable or ADSL connection.
Theres usually nothing to do for Quinn clients. They only use outbound connections.