Supported Platforms
Hardware Requirements
Java Virtual Machine(JVM) Requirements
Port Requirements

Supported Platforms

Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Solaris/Sparc 2.6, 7,8,9
Solaris/Intel 2.6,7,8,9
Compaq Tru64
IRIX
HP-UX 10.20, 11
AIX 4.3.x
Linux Redhat 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9
Linux Caldera
TurboLinux
Mac OS Classic 8.1 - 9.X
Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.1
Mac OS X Server

Hardware Requirements

123 Flash Chat Server Software will be compatible with most server hardware.

The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:

586/200 MHz or faster processor
64 MB of RAM or more
100 MB free hard disk space or more

Dedicated PII/400 MHz with 256 MB RAM is eligible to handle 500 or more concurrent users.

Adding extra RAM and processors will improve the performance of 123 Flash Chat.

Java Virtual Machine(JVM) Requirements

A Java Virtual Machine (JVM), or a Java Developer Kit (JDK), fully compliant with the Sun J2SDK 5.0 is required to run the 123 Flash Chat server. We recommend J2SDK 5.0 or a higher version.

For the current version of JDK, visit http://java.sun.com/.

Port Requirements

123 Flash Chat Server Software needs at least ONE free port. The default port is: 51127

123 Flash Chat Server Software can listen to two ports simultaneously to guarantee the accessibility:
a low one (<1024) and a high one (1024~65535).

To ensure your users don't have to configure a firewall before accessing 123 Flash Chat, the low port can be set to 80 or 443, since it is allowed by most users' firewalls.

But remember, ports below 1024 can only be accessed using flash player 7 or 8. That's why you may set a high port (1024~65535) to serve lower version flash player.

123 Flash Chat Server Software has a built-in web server JUST for testing purpose. The default port value for this web server is 35555.

For more detailed instructions on ports, please refer to the: Server Configuration Section of this guide.

Note: In Linux, only root user can start the ports below 1024.