how do enable these TCP ports for Bittorrent?

[Dave Ashby]

do an "iptables-save" to see your active rules.
your chain  (RH-Firewall-1-INPUT) may need to be changed depending on 
how you initially created/configured your firewall.
Once that's worked from the command line, do an "iptables-save > 
/etc/sysconfig/iptables" to write the new config file. You will probably 
then have to manually edit it to place the new rule before (i.e. above) 
the REJECT rule.

Hope this helps.
-dave

Elton Woo wrote:

>On September 25, 2003 03:43 pm, Markku Kolkka Markku Kolkka 
><markkukolkka at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
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>>Viestissä Torstai 25. Syyskuuta 2003 21:49, Elton Woo kirjoitti:
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>>> Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm.
>>>
>>>http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
>>>
>>>I thought this might be a good time to try using / learn to use
>>>Bittorrent. The red hat 9 rpm pacakage is already installed,
>>>but I don't know if /how to enable the above ports.
>>>      
>>>
>>I used:
>>iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT --protocol tcp --dport 6881:6889 -i eth1 -j
>>ACCEPT
>>You should change "eth1" to match your external interface.
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>root]# iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT --protocol tcp --dport 6881:6889 -i 
>eth0 -j ACCEPT
>iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
>
>... what am I still doing wrong here? My nic *is* eth0.
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>Elton  8<\
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