On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:45:54 -0800, Jared Buck <JBuck814366460@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I need a little assistance here. > > One of my friends tells me the reason Bittorrent is downloading so > slowly is because a certain group of ports isn't open. I do not know > how to open ports in Linux. I can tell you my computer is connected to > the Internet through a DSL router since everyone in my family uses DSL. > > Could someone tell me how to open up the required ports? I looked > through the archives and there's no record of a question of this type > being asked. > Try google too. Here are my rules: intip=172.1.2.3 (the IP address of your ethernet port coming in from outside) destip=192.168.x.x (the IP address of the machine on your internal network) iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $intip -p tcp --dport 6881:6999 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to-destination $destip iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $intip -p udp --dport 6881:6999 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to-destination $destip iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $intip -p tcp --dport 6346 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to-destination $destip iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $intip -p udp --dport 6346 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to-destination $destip
