On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:28 -0700, Steven Ellis wrote: > Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > I'm trying to set up Azureus using the Stanton Finley installation notes > > (http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html). I > > have 3 linux boxes (192.168.1.11-13) behind a router (192.168.1.1) and a > > DSL modem (192.168.0.1). I've followed the instructions for modifying > > iptables to open TCP ports 6881-6999 and a single UDP port in that range > > -- I've chosen UDP port 6973. > > > > Here's how I've set up port forwarding on the DSL modem and the router: > > > > The DSL Actiontec modem has a "Port Forwarding" page on which I've added > > these two lines to the "List of Forwarded Ports", where 192.168.1.1 is > > the address of the router: > > 6881-6999 tcp 192.168.1.1 > > 6973-6973 udp 192.168.1.1 > > > > The Linksys router has a "Port Range Forwarding" page on which I've > > added these two entries, where 192.168.1.12 is the address of the Linux > > box where I want to use Azureus and bittorrent: > > 6881-6999 tcp 192.168.1.12 > > 6973-6973 udp 192.168.1.12 > > > > > I guess I'm confused as to how the router and the DSL modem are > connected to your network--If the DSL modem is doing NAT for you, and so > is the router (rather odd, but should work), then you may have things > set correctly, but then the router is using two interfaces, perhaps > 192.168.0.X connected to the DSL modem, and 192.168.1.1 connected to the > linux machines--if so, you probably want to have the DSL modem forward > to 192.168.0.X (whatever the router's address is on that subnet)--the > DSL modem likely doesn't know about the 192.168.1.X network. My network configuration is the "odd" one described above. I changed the DSL modem port forwarding IP to 192.168.0.3, the address assigned to the router by its DHCP. Now everything works fine. Thanks for the help! > > I believe that the recommendation is now to _avoid_ using ports 6881 to 6999. > I believe that azureus will only use one > port (for both TCP & UDP), so there is no need to blow big holes in your > firewall. Various ISPs are apparently either rate-limiting (most > likely) or blocking (unlikely??) the old typical bittorrent ports, so > you may just have better luck if you switch to a different > higher-numbered port--make your router and any FC5 iptables firewalling > rules let in the packets for the port that you choose. port 6973 works fine -- maybe my ISP doesn't see bittorrent as a problem... yet anyway :}
