Configure hosted cache mode firewall rules
Updated: October 7, 2009
Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
You can use the information in this topic to configure third party firewall products and to manually configure a client computer or a hosted cache server in a branch office with firewall rules that allow BranchCache to run in hosted cache mode.
Note
Membership in Administrators, or equivalent is the minimum required to perform firewall configuration changes.
[MS-PCCRR]: Peer Content Caching and Retrieval: Retrieval Protocol
Hosted Cache clients must allow inbound and outbound MS-PCCRR traffic, which is carried in the HTTP 1.1 protocol as documented in request for comments (RFC) 2616.
Firewall settings must allow inbound, outbound, and program traffic. You can use the following settings to configure firewall exceptions for hosted cache mode.
Inbound traffic: Local port: 80, Remote port: ephemeral
Outbound traffic: Local port: ephemeral, Remote port: 80
[MS-PCHC]: Peer Content Caching and Retrieval: Hosted Cache Protocol
Hosted Cache clients must allow inbound and outbound MS-PCHC traffic, which is carried in the HTTP 1.1 over TLS (HTTPs) protocol as documented in request for comments (RFC) 2818.
Firewall settings must enable outbound traffic. You can use the following settings to configure firewall exceptions for hosted cache mode.
Outbound traffic: Local port: ephemeral, Remote port: 443