Bill was once rumoured to have said: > > Thanks to all those who posted replies to my earlier question re > Azureus/Bittorrent. > > I have Azureus running at reasonable speed now, having port forwarded port > 6881 to 49152 both as TCP and UDP, changing Azureus download/upload limits, > setting static IP on PC, etc. > > Azureus still shows "Blue Smiley" mostly, with the occassional "Yellow > Smiley", indicating supposed NAT problems. > > I'm pretty sure that everything is setup correctly, but when I try checking > ports ( either 6881 or 49152) on sites uch as grc.com (Shields Up) these > ports are shown as blocked. I don't believe tht this is correct or else > Azureus would not be downloading/Uploading.
False. As long as bittorrent can connect outwards, it can upload and download. The efficency is far less than that if it can be connected to however. This is as a tracker can direct a client to connect to a peer (instead of a seed) for some of its traffic - but other peers cannot connect to you. Trackers usually penalise such nodes as they provide very little to the health of the torrent 'network'. >From the sounds of it, you still haven't got your firewall configurations correct. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
