On 12/21/2011 10:29 PM, LinuxIsOne wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, John Andersen
wrote: Make sure you have a hole in your firewall for the torrent ports or you will get snubbed for not giving back.
This point really I forgot, should can I make a hole for upnp of KTorrent in default firewall of openSUSE 11.4?
Short answer: Probably. Are you behind a hardware router? You probably have to open ports there or use upnp there as well. Long answer: I don't have any routers that do upnp (or have turned it off on those that do). I'm old school, and if something opens an inbound port thru my router I want to know about it. As such I always forward a port MANUALLY to each machine authorized to run torrents behind my router. Hover the cursor over all the ports fields in the Ktorrent settings, and it will tell you which of them need to have holes in the firewall. Also see the help. There is a Recommended Settings button in Ktorrent that helps you calculate your upload bandwidth cap so as not to swamp your own download with your uploads. A generally helpful guide to bit torrant, (even tho it is NOT about kTorrent) is here: http://www.bittorrent.com/help/guides/bittorrent-connection-guide -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org