Em Seg, 2005-04-11 às 10:32 -0300, Vinicius escreveu: > Gene Heskett escreveu: > > As I also have an external router, a linksys BESFR41, I'd probably > > have to setup something in it also, and that seems fairly clear, but > > I've never been able to get a torrent going through it. My iptables > > rules ATM are fairly bulletptoof, (you cannot see me from the > > internet other than a closed identd port) so my question is this: > > > I don't know, but this is my iptables' rule: > " > $ iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT X -p tcp --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT > $ service iptables save > " > > where X is an appropriate position inside your iptables' rules. If I did > do "iptables -A ..." instead, the rule did not work, because the > previous rule is "iptables -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited" > (it will reject everything). > I would suggest two things: get a client that uses only one port (or configure your client to use a smaller port range - the first option is the best one) and try to avoid the 6881-6999 range. Some ISPs are throtling ports in these range , trying to control the bittorrent usage, which in turn means longer download times... > I can do a NAT rule on my modem to translate these ports, the rule is > called RDR. Ask to Linksys how to do this. You can search the Linksys > knowledge base about this, too. > As for the linksys router , it's easy.. go to the admin interface (usually it's on 192.168.1.1 if you kept the default settings) , no user , password "admin" . Then go to advanced setup , port forwarding... In the bottom of the page , there's a button that takes you to the port range forwarding (the initial page is only for single ports). There you can the forwarding of the range , the protocol and the destination machine (I'm just not sure if forwarding works with DHCP... in my setup , all machines have static ips...) -- Pedro Macedo
