bittorrent, azureus, ports and routers

[Jeremy Hunt]

On 10/15/06, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm presently downloading a torrent with the bittorrent-gui, which seems
> to be progressing fine.  However, I've previously run into problems with
> azureus.
>
> Azureus is a bittorrent client.  What's happening that bittorrent, itself,
> works fine, yet azureus doesn't work due to blocked ports?  What is a
> port?
>
> Apparently bittorrent works regardless of blocked ports.  What is it about
> azureus that's different?


 Azureus has  a UPnP plugin and most routers today have UPnP altough I'm not
sure if it's enabled by default. If you turn on the UPnP plugin Azureus will
negotiate the opening of the ports with your router and you won't need to
log in to configure it it doesn't matter if you have the password.

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/UPnP
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