Firewall

So it turns out that Windows Firewall, even in Windows 2008, still can’t accept a range of ports, either in the UI or via command line, most commonly when setting up PASV FTP transfers. The common workaround is to create one entry per port in your range like so: C:> FOR /L %I IN (60000,1,60200) DO netsh firewall add portopening TCP %I "Passive FTP"%I While this does work, it’s slightly annoying that you have to create 200 individual entries in your config. My slightly better workaround is to just stick every port into the text entry field using this simple ruby helper: ...