Change Skype ports

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How do I identify and change the ports Skype (skypeforlinux) uses?

Thanks in advance.

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you should be able to do it in the advanced options

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not my picture found it with google

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Thank you for the speedy reply. Unfortunately the “Options” menu in your response does not exist in version 8.20.0.9

When I invoked “lsof -i” I found all these ports open, and I wonder why. I don’t think I’ll be using Skype much longer. Microsoft offers little support for Linux.

skypeforl 28734   ion   89u  IPv4 2686464      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:50698->13.79.186.4:https (ESTABLISHED)skypeforl 28734   ion  100u  IPv4 2680780      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:36922->104.208.28.54:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28734   ion  128u  IPv4 2679148      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:51708->93.184.215.201:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28734   ion  129u  IPv4 2678756      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:42710->dfw28s04-in-f10.1e100.net:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28734   ion  130u  IPv4 2681609      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:35956->191.236.193.189:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28734   ion  146u  IPv4 2679003      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:33248->40.112.187.188:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28734   ion  150u  IPv4 2679035      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:35390->52.187.36.169:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28775   ion   63u  IPv6 2678825      0t0  TCP 192.168.44.100:36722->40.83.21.197:https (ESTABLISHED)
skypeforl 28775   ion   98u  IPv6 2678824      0t0  UDP *:43176
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you’re right I hadn’t used skype on desktop for a long time I just installed it and while it does look pretty a lot of options are gone as far as I can tell there is no way to changing the port used (this seams to be true for the new windows port too)
that’s MS for you

edit
while I’m not sure if skype switched to port 80 but afaik it does play nice with firewalld

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Problem solved. Switched to Google Hangouts. It works, and has far superior sound quality.

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as I said I just installed skype and it works well for me and I’m behind a router so I’m pretty sure the port skype uses is not open
anyway if there are several versions of skype available from the skype repo you can use yast to install the oldest one as I’m not sure when MS redesigned their gui and removed the change port option

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Thanks I’ll give it another try.