On Monday 11 April 2005 12:37, Pedro Macedo wrote: >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 didn't know that, thanks. See my other post a few seconds ago, showing a tracker startup failure. Comment if you can. >> 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...) Humm, mine (BEFSR41) shows only ranges on the base page of port forwarding. ISTR I did see one where it only took single ports. Looked to be a bit limiting TBT. >-- >Pedro Macedo -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
