Network Ports for the control network

Different types of network activities on the control network require particular ports to be open. Make sure that the required ports are open for the types of activities you are expecting.

Network activity

Port number(s) required

Copying of audio files to and from MediaMatrix devices using FTP.

20 and 21

Web access using HTTP.

80

Controlling and monitoring devices using SNMP.

161

System health packet transmission.

These packets are sent ten times a second by nControls, nTouch 180s and NIONs, and are received by all devices subscribed to the multicast address 239.0.0.10:1234.

Note: These packets are very small and are not aggregated into a significant amount of network traffic.

1234

Controlling devices from an external program using RATC.

1632

Pandad communication across subnets. For more information, see Linking instances of Pandad across subnets.

4000

Discovery packet transmission.

These packets are sent once every five seconds by nControls, nTouch 180s and NIONs, and are received by all devices subscribed to the multicast address 239.0.0.10:4321.

Note: These packets are very small and are not aggregated into a significant amount of network traffic.

4321

Kiosk2Go websocket communications.

TCP port 7681

Kiosk2Go discovery application running on iOS and Android.

UDP port 7681

In this section

Opening a port in Windows Firewall

See also

Introduction

Multicast traffic