Hi > How do I open ports 5678, 5679, and 990 through the firewall for > /dev/ttyUSB0 ? Hmm. You seem to be confused. once you can open these ports in firewall any applications would be allowed to access deamons running on these ports. There are two types of firewalls application specific like zonealarm in windows port specific like iptables in Linux -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram