Ralph Johns

iChat Internet Ports

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5 iChat Ports Firewall Add Ports

02-10-2006

Editted View of the Number of Ports iChat Needs

Depending if you used New or Edit to get here you will have details like this entered or not.

If you used New make the "Other" appear in the drop down at the top. There are options of Presets that are not already in the list in this drop down.

In Tiger (10.4.x) enter the TCP ports in the next line, with the commas and spaces. These are for the Login and Text Chats over AIM, Bonjour(Rendezvous) and Jabber. (In Earlier OS versions enter all the ports on the one line)

Next enter the UDP Ports (Tiger Upwards). The picture has has been altered to show the ones normally out of sight. These are for the AV ports, Bonjour and Direct Chats and file sending. There are no Jabber UDP ports.

A Mac Firewall is the only place I have heard about that enters the ports with both commas and spaces in this manner. All other devices that allow the ports on one line (normally in Port Triggering set ups) do not use the Space, although commas and dashes are allowed.

All you need to do now is hit the OK button.

This Picture shows two screen shots played as an Animated .gif. First the Panther View and then Later OSes (Tiger at the time)

As can be seen the early Ports do not distinguish between TCP and UDP protocols

The Next Picture will show you the ports in a table form.

Next:- Table of Ports

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© 2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006
Updated October 2008. Reviewed and Updated to HTML 5 October 2024

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This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

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This picture is about using the Edit or New button to bring up this pop out screen. From there you need to select Other in the drop down at the top (it lists other presets the OS has that are not active in the list like MSN And Yahoo and stuff). Strangely there is not a Preset for iChat, even in Tiger.

From there it is a question of entering the ports in the requried manner depending if you have Tiger of pre Tiger version and giving the endtry a Name.

Compatibility

Confirmed to work with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

Compatibility

Much of this page has been altered to be as HTML 5 compatible as possible. This may cause issues with any of the Browser below.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

Previously confirmed to work with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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