He brought up forwarding, which is different from open. You need to set up port forwarding schemes in the router, telling it "Port 9713 should connect to computer A, 8256 to computer B, 22 to the linux box", etc. Different routers will behave differently, but they all will require port forwarding before others can connect to you from the outside. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 08:33:42AM -0700, cmcanulty wrote: > > I have cleared the ports to open on the router as I said above,so I > think somehow I have to open the ports in ubuntu but I don't know how > to do it. I installed firestarter but couldn't get it to open any > ports so I uninstalled it. > > On Oct 29, 9:41 am, JTF <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have a router on your network? If so, you need to forward the > > ports from your router to your computer or you will still not get > > inbound communications. > > > > Check their wiki > > > > http://wiki.amule.org/index.php/Firewall > > > > Good luck. > > > > On Oct 29, 8:45 am, cmcanulty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am using aMule with Ubuntu 9.10. I have opened the ports with my > > > router and have no firestarter installed but still KAD says > > > firewalled. I tried firestarter before but I couldn't figure out how > > > to open ports with it. > > > > > >
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