Does anyone have any pointers on this? In short, I just want to know how
to confirm that ports 6881-6889 are open and whether my router really is
forwarding those ports to my machine, and if they are why the BitTorrent
GUI seems to think they aren't.
Best, Darren
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:17 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
On FC4 I have, installed from Extras,
bittorrent-4.2.0-1.fc4
bittorrent-gui-4.2.0-1.fc4
The new GUI has a small icon in the top-right below the menu which gives
the visual impression of no-access (something like a road-block sign),
and its tooltip says "Firewalled/NATted". Now I think I understand what
this means, but don't understand how it can be true in my case. My
firewall has ports 6881-6889 open, and those ports are forwarded from my
NAT router to the IP address of my machine. However, torrent downloads
are *very* slow (5 or 6KB/s on a 2Gb/s DSL line).
Port 6881-6889 are set to be open in system-config-securitylevel, as
this indicates:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/system-config-securitylevel
# Configuration file for system-config-securitylevel
--enabled
--port=6881:tcp
--port=6882:tcp
--port=6883:tcp
--port=6884:tcp
--port=6885:tcp
--port=6886:tcp
--port=6887:tcp
--port=6888:tcp
--port=6889:tcp
My broadband router is set to forward ports 6881-6889 to 192.168.0.2,
which is my IP address:
# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:50:FC:59
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:302422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:350456 errors:19 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:197007656 (187.8 MiB) TX bytes:230387996 (219.7 MiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe000
Does anyone know how I go about confirming whether ports 6881-6889
really are open, and whether the router really is forwarding those
ports?
TIA.
Best, Darren
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