Am Dienstag 12 Juni 2007 16:04 schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:49 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > I have to use port 21 because my provider slows everything down as > > soon as he > > recognizes traffic on any port except those typically in use. > > AFAIK the bitrorrent protocol is for ports starting at 6882. It's > likely that clients won't connect to your port (21) esp. since it is a > lower port # reserved for FTP. > > But if you say it works on other setups then it should work also with > Gentoo. Have you tried running netstat?
netstat Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 1 HOMER_GENTOO64.PHHE:ftp 212-87-13-68.sds.:40202 FIN_WAIT1 Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 975 @/org/kernel/udev/udevd [...] nothing interesting except the first line. > Have you ensured rtorrent is > listning on TCP 21 (in Linux you usually have to be running as root to > do this) Yes. It runs as root (not that I would like it, maybe I should chroot it...) and port 21 is rtorrent's only chance to download. So, it works. > Are you running something on your end that may be blocking > incoming TCP/21? You mean stuff like iptables? No.
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