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Guest Networks - Supported Services

This page lists the supported protcols and services for the University of Reading's guest networks.  Other protocols and services may work; however only the protocols in this list will be supported by IT Services.  Services listed in italic are above and beyond the mandatory services required for eduroam compliance.

 Name  Ports and Protocols  Description
 IPv6 tunnel broker  TCP/UDP 3653  Tunnel services for IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels
 IPSec NAT traversal  UDP 4500  Support for IPSec through NAT gateways
 Cisco IPSec NAT traversal  TCP 10000  Support for IPSec through NAT gateways
 PPTP  IP 47 and TCP 1723  VPN protocol 
 OpenVPN  TCP 5000  VPN protocol
 SSH  TCP 22  Secure Shell
 CVS  TCP 2401  Version control
 Git  TCP 9418  Version control
 HTTP  TCP 80  Web browsing
 HTTP Alternative port  TCP 8080  Web browsing
 HTTPS  TCP 443  Web browsing
 LDAP  TCP 389 and TCP 636  Authentication and directory services
 IMSP  TCP 406  Email
 IMAP4  TCP 143  Email
 IMAP3  TCP 220  Email
 IMAPS  TCP 993  Email
 POP3  TCP 110  Email
 POP3S  TCP 994  Email
 SMTPS  TCP 465  Email
 SOCKS  TCP 1080  Remote access
 Submit  TCP 587  Email
 Subversion  TCP 3690  Version control
 Passive (S)FTP  TCP 21  File transfer protocol
 Quicktime  TCP 7070  Multimedia applications
 RDP  TCP 3389  Remote desktop connections
 RTMP  TCP 1935  Multimedia applications
 RTSP  TCP 554  Multimedia applications
 SIP  TCP / UDP 5060  Voice over IP (VoIP)
 VNC  TCP 4900  Remote desktop connections
 Citrix  TCP 1495  Remote desktop connections
 XMPP  TCP 5222 and 5223  Interactive chat services


In addition to these egress services, the following protcols are also permitted to selected University of Reading servers:

  • SSH (Secure Shell - requires authentication)
  • IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
  • LPR (Line Printer Protocol)
  • CIFS / SMB (Windows Filesharing - requires authentication)

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Last Edited: 19 May 2011 | First Published: 26 October 2007

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