Seeding Torrents

[cape canaveral]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:26:40 -0600, Glen Smith <gesmith at gsdesign.biz> wrote:
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> I have two machines and a hardware firewall. The first machine, my long time
> gentoo box, can seed torrents fine as it always has and my firewall settings
> are the same as always allowing that kind of riff-raff traffic
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> My FreeBSD box can recieve but cannot send, at least not very well. The
> torrents complain about not being able to connect to the tracker.
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> I'm guessing their is a setting/config-file here I'm not familiar with or that
> I'm missing and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it.
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> - -Glen
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What kind of hardware firewall?  Is it a NAT device?  You probably
have the default bit torrent ports open and forwarded to your gentoo
machine.  Here are some links;

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html#FWConfig
http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/25.html

-Aaron