Get through the firewall

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Hi.
I’ve just learned that the firewall was stopping my application from communication to the internet.

Now that I know I have to set a hole in the NAT with “translation traversal” for the program and open specific UDP port. I would like to this through code if possible.

Do anyone know have do this in code(C#)?

Thanks again to everyone.

Update

I should make my self clear. Sorry about that.
I want to make a hole in the firewall to be able let my program communicate through that hole. That includes communication through a specific UDP port and a NAT Traversal.

Now. When I looked in windows security, I can see all programs that dos this. These programs must have made that change to the firewall under installation. In my mind that’s done in code.

Isn’t there some assembly that gives this ability.

Update 2

Ex
Windows 7
Start/Control Panel/System Security/Windows Firewall/Advanced settings/Allow programs to communicate through Windows Firewall/Allow programs and features/iTunes
It has public networking enabled. I didn’t do this changes?

Can anybody help me her.

Posted 22-Mar-11 1:13am

pluss400

Updated 22-Mar-11 5:29am

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Solution 1

You can't do this through code. Imagine the security implications that would arise if it was possible.

Posted 22-Mar-11 1:26am

#realJSOP

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pluss400 22-Mar-11 10:02am

When I install communication program like dropbox it dos the changes by it self. I dos have a client, server configuration. That has to be done in code. Right.

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-22T02:10:00

Solution 2

It really depends on what kind of firewall you have. I found this great article "Programmatically Controlling a UPnP-Capable Firewall"[^] that shows a way to do what you want. It has a couple of vb scripts utilizing CreateObject, so if you have a firewall that is UPnP enabled the examples should also be translateable to C#.

I hope this helps you gather some ideas.

Cheers and happy coding!

Modification:
Another great starter is this CP article: Programmatically disable/enable Windows firewall[^]. The interesting bit is right on top of said article:
"Click Browse tab -> Add C:\windows\system32\Hnetcfg.dll & Click COM tab -> Add NetFwTypeLib."
This allows you to gain access to these DLLs from your C# project. The CP article is in VB, but that should be a reasonable task for an accomplished programmer to port to C#.

Posted 22-Mar-11 2:10am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Updated 22-Mar-11 2:19am

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#realJSOP 22-Mar-11 8:12am

And everybody and their brother that knows what they're doing security-wise recommends turning off PnP oin a router for that very reason.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Mar-11 8:22am

It's his firewall and his security risk. He asked if there is a way so here it is.

#realJSOP 22-Mar-11 10:39am

Maybe, but then again, maybe not... BTW, I am not the person that voted your answer with a 1.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Mar-11 10:45am

No problem, I don't get excited over that anymore. :)

pluss400 22-Mar-11 10:23am

When I install communication program like dropbox it dos the changes by it self. It dos have a client, server configuration ofcourse. That has to be done in code.

I want to WCF P2P that uses PNRP to be able communicate wold wide.

Dalek Dave 22-Mar-11 10:56am

Perhaps he needs a better firewall.

pluss400 22-Mar-11 12:37pm

????

pluss400 22-Mar-11 12:46pm

If you’re so capable, it should be a piece of cake generating a decent answer.
But, watt I can see, you’re just mumbling like a bunch of old ladies.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Mar-11 12:57pm

Did the first article I linked to have any useful information for you?

pluss400 22-Mar-11 13:57pm

Yes. Thank you. I appreciate it. But the other comments, I can be without.
I’ve looked at it and I found the assembly’s. I´m not quite sure what It accomplishes.
I’m going to ask you a stupid question. My 2 update: dos it accomplish that task. So I only have to do these ones?

pluss400 23-Mar-11 7:00am

Hi again. Ones again, thanks.
It gave me a pointer, where I found what I was looking for. I´l put the link here, witch was very discriptiv with som C# code ex:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ncl/archive/2009/07/27/end-to-end-connectivity-with-nat-traversal-.aspx

Now I will precid with security and firewalls.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 23-Mar-11 9:26am

Sorry, for not responding earlier, but I was very busy. I'm glad you found something and hope you can work out a solution.