On Machine A
I am running a port scanner. On Machine B
I would like to open and close ports in an organized fashion. I am hoping to do all of this via powershell.
I found THIS script to run on Machine B
however when scanning the same port from Machine A
it still says that it is closed.
Do any of you know how I can successfully open a port on Machine B
Avoid COM if possible. You can use TcpListener to open a port:
$Listener = [System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener]9999;
$Listener.Start();
#wait, try connect from another PC etc.
$Listener.Stop();
If you happen to miss a Stop
command during debugging - just close and re-open the application from where you opened the socket - hanging port should be cleared. In my case it was PowerGUI script editor
.
Then use TcpClient to check it.
(new-object Net.Sockets.TcpClient).Connect($host, $port)
If you cannot connect, means the firewall is blocking it.
EDIT: To print a message when connection is received, you should be able to use this code (based on this article from MSDN):
#put this code in between Start and Stop calls.
while($true)
{
$client = $Listener.AcceptTcpClient();
Write-Host "Connected!";
$client.Close();
}