The following list shows the ports used by eMule when using it's default settings. If you change anything in Preferences -> Connection you will have to take the changes into account when configuring your firewall or router.
1) | Local Port: | 4662 |
Remote Port: | any | |
Protocol: | TCP | |
Direction: | incoming | |
Purpose: | Client Port / Connections from other clients, Client to Client Source Exchange |
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Note: | You can change this port in Preferences -> Connection ->
Client Port
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2) | Local Port: | any |
Remote Port: | 4662 | |
Protocol: | TCP | |
Direction: | outgoing | |
Purpose: | Client Port / Connections to other clients, Client to Client Source Exchange |
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Note: | 4662 is the default port, but other clients may have different settings. Change the remote port to any when configuring a firewall
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3) | Local Port: | 4672 |
Remote Port: | any | |
Protocol: | UDP | |
Direction: | incoming | |
Purpose: |
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Note: | This port has to be forwarded in a router. Changing this port in Preferences
you must also change the forwarding in the router.
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4) | Local Port: | any |
Remote Port: | 4672 | |
Protocol: | UDP | |
Direction: | outgoing | |
Purpose: |
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Note: | 4672 is the default port, but other clients may have different settings. Change the remote port to any when configuring a firewall |
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5) | Local Port: | any |
Remote Port: | 4661 | |
Protocol: | TCP | |
Direction: | outgoing | |
Purpose: | Connection to server |
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Note: | 4661 is the default port of a server. Many server use different ports. Configuring a firewall the remote port again changes to any.
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6) | Local Port: | any |
Remote Port: | 4665 | |
Protocol: | UDP | |
Direction: | outgoing | |
Purpose: | Source asking on servers | |
Note: | Servers using the default port 4661 TCP (see #5) automatically set their port for source asking to 4665 UDP. If a server uses a different port in #5 the corresponding UDP port is set to [Connection Port + 4]. For firewalls the remote port here is any.
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7) | Local Port: | 4711 |
Remote Port: | any | |
Protocol: | TCP | |
Direction: | incoming | |
Purpose: | Webserver | |
Note: | This is the default port for the web interface. When using a router this port has to be forwarded or no connection to the webserver will be possible. |