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2598 Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)

TCP Unofficial
UDP
SCTP
DCCP

What it is

Citrix Common Gateway Protocol / Session Reliability.

When / why

Resilient Citrix sessions; supersedes 1494 when enabled.

Protocol status detail

TransportStatusMeaning
TCP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
UDP Not applicable for this transport.
SCTP Not applicable for this transport.
DCCP Not applicable for this transport.

Port range

Registered (1024–49151). Assigned by IANA on request; usable without elevated privileges on most systems.

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Firewall rules for port 2598

Copy-ready inbound rules for the active transports. Replace every <source> placeholder with the specific host, subnet, or CIDR that should reach this port.

ufw

sudo ufw allow proto tcp from <source> to any port 2598

Allow TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="2598" protocol="tcp" accept'

Allow TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

nftables

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> tcp dport 2598 accept

Allow TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s <source> --dport 2598 -j ACCEPT

Allow TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

Azure NSG

az network nsg rule create -g <resource-group> --nsg-name <nsg> -n Allow-citrixicasessionreliabil-2598 --priority 1000 --access Allow --direction Inbound --protocol TCP --source-address-prefixes <source> --destination-port-ranges 2598

Inbound rule for 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Set <source> to a CIDR; lower priority number = higher precedence.

AWS Security Group

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=tcp,FromPort=2598,ToPort=2598,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

GCP firewall

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-citrixicasessionreliabil-2598 --direction=INGRESS --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:2598 --source-ranges=<source-cidr> --network=<network>

Ingress rule for 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Scope with --source-ranges and optionally --target-tags.

Windows netsh

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Citrix ICA (Session Reliability) 2598/TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=2598 remoteip=<source>

Inbound TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

Windows PowerShell

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Citrix ICA (Session Reliability) 2598/TCP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 2598 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound TCP 2598 (Citrix ICA (Session Reliability)). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

Rules are generated only for transports marked active for this port. They default to an inbound allow with an explicit source placeholder — never any. Review direction, scope, and rule precedence before applying in production.