This article applies to organisations with a 'Hybrid' setup (both On-Premise Appliance and Cloud), as well as On-Premise only and Cloud only setups.
You can allow users access to play Minecraft without allowing access to all online games or computer games.
Create a Web Filter Policy for the Minecraft Category, with Allow as the Action.
To allow users to be able to connect to external servers when using Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance as your Firewall create a Firewall Rule:
- In the Services section, select Create.
- Set Type to New service.
- Enter a Name.
- For Protocol, select TCP.
- For Port, enter 25565.
- (Optional) Add a comment.
- Select Add item.
- Add another item to Services, with the Protocol as UDP and the Port as 19132.
- If using iOS devices, add another item to Services, with the Protocol as TCP and the Port as a range 16384-16472.
- Set the Action to Accept.
- Select Save changes.