-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 13:50:01, Thereidos wrote: > Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 21:18, Charlie Mahan napisaÅ: > > That's about all I know about the software, sorry. It's also probably all > > I'll ever know about it for the simple reasons that I have a radically > > edited set of rules that I use for iptables that is specific to my > > environment, and the only "Fire Wall" I even try to use is shorewall. > > That's just because it's the default in Mandrake installs and if I don't > > know what to do with the glitches I'm doing my customers a disservice. > > I think I'm beginning to get the picture. Short question : if I'd like to > use some bit torrent client listen on certain port should this port remain > to be stealth or should I leave it open?
I do believe (HEY! somebody check this please?) the only way you need to open anything for any bit-torrent client would be if you were the "super seed" and were hosting the torrent yourself. For connections to existing torrents I don't think you need to open anything that won't be open enough to acknowledge the torrent. Open the app by clicking the torrent link I mean. Responses then are restricted to that link and the running application, and the firewall should ignore them since they are mostly "ack and syn" packets. It must work something along those lines. The only way I can make apollon or gtk-gnutella run is to open the relevant ports manually before I start. Then I have to re-edit my rules for iptables after I shut the application down, which I find a time consuming pain in the assets. That makes it hard to grab family video etc without waiting for Canada Post and the U.S.P.S., which in combination seem a lot slower than the Pony Express ever was. But during the first 2 days of the recent torrent release of 10.1 Beta1 I uploaded over 2 GB without touching the firewall. 60 Kbytes/second upload speed average. I had to shut it down so my ISP wouldn't scream at me. > PS. I'm still wondering why my firestarter window keeps crashing... I would wonder too. Are you using Firestarter because you had good results with it somewhere else or just because? Shorewall is default in Mandrake and seems to work in an acceptable manner most of the time. Dan's Guardian has also received decent reviews in the past. I'm just curious. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Beta 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 14:00:06 up 4 days, 2:53, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.12 Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBF9sQZqvqlrLPr5YRAo+uAJ0aRBHkuAZyalp32JwNz/pFfPy25ACgj3Yp nN3O3qOTvVMnNmcL5omQuF4= =ovZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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