MPICH and FireWall with XP

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Dear All,

I am practicing parallel process of Fluent by using MPICH on a number of XP machines with firewall. I already added fl6216.exe and fl_nmpi6216.exe (also mpd.exe, MPIrun.exe) in the Firewall exception list. However, the launching process keeps failing due to connection (easy_connection timeout) when I turn on the Firewall. If the firewall is off, everything looks just perfect. Please give me some ideas if you are experienced on this. Many thanks.

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