7 Firewalls and Proxies
There are two firewall rules that need to be allowed:
1. The binary boinc.exe needs to be allowed to communicate with ip address 129.33.89.133 on ports 80 and 443. This is communication to World Community Grid’s servers.
2. The binaries boinc.exe, boinc.scr, boincmgr.exe and boinccmd.exe need to be able to communicate to 127.0.0.1 on port 31416 (some firewalls restrict ip traffic to the localhost).
The BOINC agent also can be configured to communicate through Proxies. This is done by performing the following steps:
1. Open the BOINC Manager.
2. Click on the ‘Advanced’ button to go to the advanced view.
3. Select the ‘Advanced’ menu and select ‘Options’.
4. In the popup, select either the HTTP or SOCKS proxies as appropriate.
In certain circumstances, you may be prompted for the proxy information while you are attaching to World Community Grid.