Bittorrent

[wquatan]

Hi,

How can I configure Wingate to have it behave transparantly for Bittorrent-clients ?

Thanks for helping

Walter

[Ender]

Only just started using Wingate, so no expert....

But I had this problem - you need to allow ports 6881 - 6889 TCP in Port Security in Extended Networking and then it should be ok.

Basically BT uses 6881 - if thats used it will try the next available port upto 6889.

Obviously for security reasons all inbound ports are closed unless specifically opened.

Hope this help....

*Edit - forgot to mention - just watch the firewall log if you have similiar problems - it will tell you what port is being blocked

[wquatan]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply !

Unfortunatly that doesn't seem to work. Could this be because Torrent-program is not running on Wingate-machine ?

Thx

[leehaw]

If your BT client isn't running on the WinGate machine, then you'll need to redirect the packet to another IP address.

1. In ENS properties, goto Port Security tab.
2. Select "Connections from the Internet" dropdown.
3. Add an entry to allow incoming port(s).
4. Specify to redirect to the IP of your machine that runs BT.

If you have 2 or more machines running BT, then you need to add 2 or more entries here. Make sure the port range doesn't overlap. And on the BitTorrent client you need to tell it which port range to use for incoming traffic.

I'd personally tried this and it worked for me. I'd BT running on the WinGate machine, and another machine on the LAN.

[wquatan]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply

Forwarding seems to work. It's a pitty not a computername can be specified instead of ip, as they are allocated dynamically.

Remains one issue : Internet users are Guest and therefore refused by the firewall. Can I acknowledge them for this BT-setting ?

Thanks

Walter