Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:58:01 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW torrent Message-ID: <20090310215801.47aa703e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <b9079c480903101240u4f6d3995m534a6f42555d2f7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <b9079c480903101240u4f6d3995m534a6f42555d2f7e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:40:11 +0100 Roy Stuivenberg <roys1012@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I can't seem to get my torrent client working, when ipfw is up. > > This rules i use in my script for the torrent client (ktorrent) Typically you need separate rules for incoming and outgoing connections, something like this add 1000 check-state add 1010 deny tcp from any to any in established # bittorrent tcp on 14353 add 10801 allow tcp from any to me 14353 keep-state # allow outgoing tcp add 50000 allow tcp from any to any out keep-state BTW if you use p2p a lot then eventually you'll probably want to do upload prioritisation, and that's a lot easier with pf+altq. I switched from ipfw to pf a long time ago, and I wouldn't want to go back.
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