Firewall woes

**Tokyokid** · 10-10-2010, 10:44 PM

I am using these clients on a Windows NT machine. Is there a similar solution I can try?
Thanks for the post anyway.

**omocron** · 10-11-2010, 11:50 AM

to see your autoconnection work clear the discovered host BEFORE connecting to guntellahosts.com or the limewire router.
they will load new found hosts and then try to connect to them

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**Brin** · 10-12-2010, 05:58 AM

I'm also having problems finding out IPCHAINS rules for RedHat7 or an ip_masq_* modprobe for Gnutella. Don't want to have to recompile kernel for ipmasqadm - is there *really* no alternative to ipmasqadm on Linux?

Thanks yall - death to the greedy record execs and the RIAA. I swear I will never pay for another CD after what they've done to Napster - all my music will come directly from artist sites or freeloaded from now on.

**dude1234** · 10-12-2010, 07:43 PM

Tip for folks using a linux firewall:

If you're masqing your ip using ipchains, you'll need to make sure that you also forward your specific gnutella connection port through your firewall. Obviously, if your firewall is on your gateway, and you're trying to connect from a pc behind your gateway/firewall, simply accepting your connection won't work. You need to tell your gateway that traffic to/from your gnutella listen port (e.g. 6346) should be handled directly by the pc running your gnutella software.

And example of a line from my port forwarding script might help:

/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip 6346 -R $pc_local_ip 6346

where $extip is your external ip addy and $pc_local_ip is the interal ip addy for your pc (usually 192.168.111.xxx)

Hope that helps a few people. For more info,see http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html

**Mars Turrez** · 10-13-2010, 11:17 AM

ok, I am behind a Novel firewall. I can connect and search for files. I click on a file to start downloading it...and it will sit there and not download. It keeps going through the attempts to connect to the person and download. I am wondering if I was just too impatient, or if my firewall will prevent me from getting and recieving files?