Bittorrent Client ??

[John Nichel]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> All this talk about BT has me hungering to make it work here.  
> Unforch, this machine is behind another machine running iptables 
> bolted down solidly, as in I could give you my ip address as seen 
> from the network side, and the only thing you'd find there is a 
> closed identd port, everything else doesn't respond.  iptables is 
> doing NAT, MASQUERADING and a  couple more things I've probably 
> forgotten.
> 
> I have the white DSL modem verizon uses, which is on the LAN port of a 
> linksys BEFSR41 router, regular port 1 of which feeds ethernet card 
> eth0 in the fireall, and the firewall feeds this machine thru eth1.  
> No other cable are plugged into the router at present, although I 
> might have a cable to the workshop computer plugged in there 
> eventually.  Schematicly it looks like this:
> 
> DSL modem<->LAN port on router<->switch port 1 on router<->eth0 in 
> firewall<->iptables<->eth1 in firewall<->eth0 on this machine
> 
> I have opened a port range in iptables that BT uses (I think, here 
> is that line from /etc/sysconfig/iptables on the firewall)
> 
> [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT 
> 
> How would I go about running BT under these conditions?
> 

I have almost this same setup ('cept I don't have a hardware router...a 
RH7.3 box acts as my firewall/router).  I had to not only put the route 
in the iptables of the RH box, but had to login to the Westel (the white 
modem I got from Verizon), and make a route in there too.

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John C. Nichel
KegWorks.com
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