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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2004 06:59:02 -0800
From:      cape canaveral <somniosus@gmail.com>
To:        Glen Smith <gesmith@gsdesign.biz>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Seeding Torrents
Message-ID:  <f2f44cff041211065913a4412d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041211142640.GA15687@gsdesign.biz>
References:  <20041211142640.GA15687@gsdesign.biz>

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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:26:40 -0600, Glen Smith <gesmith@gsdesign.biz> wrote:
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> I have two machines and a hardware firewall. The first machine, my long time
> gentoo box, can seed torrents fine as it always has and my firewall settings
> are the same as always allowing that kind of riff-raff traffic
> 
> My FreeBSD box can recieve but cannot send, at least not very well. The
> torrents complain about not being able to connect to the tracker.
> 
> I'm guessing their is a setting/config-file here I'm not familiar with or that
> I'm missing and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it.
> 
> - -Glen
> 

What kind of hardware firewall?  Is it a NAT device?  You probably
have the default bit torrent ports open and forwarded to your gentoo
machine.  Here are some links;

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html#FWConfig
http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/25.html

-Aaron



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