Without unblocking the ports bittorrent will indeed work, as you can attest to. The problem is that by default your firewall will only allow ESTABLISHED connection to requests made by your IP. This means that people can't connect to your machine to request downloads. This also means that users can't directly upload to you, based on the trackers instructions. Long story short, you get less connections established for your transfer, which translate to much slower speeds. After I unblocked those ports on my system, my bt's went from an average of 4-10 to more like 15 to max download speed of my line. On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:21:35 +0100, D. D. Brierton <darren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd love it if someone could explain this to me: bittorrent works fine > for me on FC2, and it did on FC1 and RHL9, and I've always used > redhat|system-config-securitylevel and have never added any extra > workarounds to open up ports 6881-6889. So how come bittorrent works at > all? Admittedly I don't always get the greatest download speeds with it, > but I thought that was more to do with slow seeders, or too many > leachers and not enough seeders or something. I certainly have on > occasion got download speeds that have maxed out my DSL connection. > > Relatedly, as you both appear to be using system-config-securitylevel, > how did you add the extra rules for ports 6881-6889? > > TIA. > > Best, Darren > > -- > ===================================================================== > D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com > Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) > ===================================================================== > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
