So the open port for the day depends on what IP address you got for the day? OK fine but how does your BT know what port it can use?
When you try to use BT no one except your firewall will know what ports it is allowing for BT?!? Chris On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:15:58PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >My favorite BT client is Azureus, which has nice graphics and GUI > >controls, and uses only port 6881. > > By default, however, you really should choose a different port. > > I use something like 36881-36889 or something like that. > > The reason is that many ISP's are starting to traffic shape 6881-6889. > > You only normally need to open one port, so what I do is that I set my > firewall such that it maps the ports to local DHCP addresses. > > ie. > > 192.168.1.101 -> 36881 > 192.168.1.102 -> 36882 > 192.168.1.103 -> 36883 > etc. > > That way I don't have to reconfigure the firewall just because my > computer picked up a different DHCP address today. > > -a > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-0804 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
