[gentoo-server] Gentoo Firewall & UPNP

[gentoo-server] Gentoo Firewall & UPNP

[Benjamen R. Meyer]

I'm trying to figure out a good solution for my desktop to work with my
server for applications like kTorrent, where I need to be able to accept
new connections so that I can fully-participate (instead of just leech
off of) in Torrent traffic. UPNP seems to be a good answer to this, but
I haven't setup UPNP on Linux before.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_UPnP_with_IPTables

I noticed the URL above on how to do UPNP via linux-igd, but I'm not
sure that's what I want. I searched emerge for UPNP and saw a number of
packages in the list. I was wondering if anyone here has had any
experience (good/bad/otherwise) on setting up a Gentoo-based ipTables
Firewall for UPNP, or what packages people might recommend for it.

While I am mostly concerned with having kTorrent work on my Gentoo
Desktop, I might also be interested in using BitTorrent on a Win2k
Laptop too - I don't know if it supports UPnP or not (possible), but if
it was easy to support, I might be inclined to. (If not, no big loss.)
So I'd welcome thoughts on that as well towards the above questions.

TIA,

Ben
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Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo Firewall & UPNP

[Andrew Gaffney]

Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a good solution for my desktop to work with my
> server for applications like kTorrent, where I need to be able to accept
> new connections so that I can fully-participate (instead of just leech
> off of) in Torrent traffic. UPNP seems to be a good answer to this, but

I use ktorrent all the time behind my NAT firewall without any 
bittorrent-related ports forwarded, and I'm able to seed torrents without a problem.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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