Actually, I do not have UPnP enabled onmy firewall (not router).  I use a
Check Point NGX firewall to protect my network and it is very picky about
things like UPnP.  I'll have to do some tcpdumps during my next BT session
to see how it's handling the traffic.

-D


On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Scott Pettit wrote:

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> Yes - but I don't imagine many people have UPnP setup in their router, if it
> supports it.
>
> On 11/19/05, ScratchMonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > --On Friday, November 18, 2005 4:39 PM -0500 "Deacon @[dgx]"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > While BitTorrent is not NAT-friendly, BT clients like Azureus seem to
> > > avoid the NAT pitfalls. On my home network, for the life of me, I cannot
> > > get BT to work; however, Azureus works 95% of the imte. Tracking works
> > as
> > > well.
> >
> > I asked a similar question on the BT protocol discussion list and found
> > that the 3rd party BT clients (like Azureus) use UPnP to automagically
> > configure port forwarding in the router. The original BT client doesn't
> > have that feature.
> >
> >
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