Topic: Torrent Seeding / Health Question

[MarkF]

I run Azareus off two machines at home.  The first is a 2000 machine with no problems.  The second is a XPpro machine.  When seeding from the XPpro, I never get a green health light.  I only get local peers/connections, whereas on the 2000 machine I get local and remote connections.  I have ports 6881-6889 forwarded through my DSL modem/router and my Linksys router.  I also have those ports forwarded through the XP firewall.  I have tried disabling the XP firewall and it doesnt seem to matter.   I dont run any other firewall on the XP machine. When using the NAT/firewall test through Azareus for port 6881 I get a NAT error. Am I missing something here?

Thanks

[Morphius]

It seems to me that you have the ports forwarded to the wrong machine.  I also have a two machine setup, and here's what I've done.  One machine (machine A) has a local IP address of 127.0.0.2 and machine B has an address of 127.0.0.4  Machine A has ports 6881-6889 open and forwarded on the router.  Machine B has ports 6900-6908 open and forwared on the the router.

Besides making sure the XP firewall is allowing the connection, some routers (all that I've seen) don't allow you to forward the same port range to more than one machine.  If that is the case you have to pick a different range for one of the computers and then forward that.

Give that a try, if it doesn't help, let me know.

[Morphius]

... and don't forget to add that new port range to Azureus

[MarkF]

Heres what I have going on.

ports 6881-6889 are forwarded from the DSL modem router to the Linksys router
ports 6881-6884 are forwarded from the Linksys router to the windows 2000 machine with Azureus using port 6881
ports 6885-6889 are forwarded from the Linksys router to the XP macine with Azureus using port 6885

Same problem.  There must be something on the XP machine blocking.  I have totally diasbled windows firewall, and a Norton Security Center that came with the computer.  I think I am wide open.

[MarkF]

When I do an outside port probe of 6885 it shows it as open.  I used www.grc.com Shields UP port probe.

[jaguaracer]

It seems to me that you have the ports forwarded to the wrong machine.  I also have a two machine setup, and here's what I've done.  One machine (machine A) has a local IP address of 127.0.0.2 and machine B has an address of 127.0.0.4  Machine A has ports 6881-6889 open and forwarded on the router.  Machine B has ports 6900-6908 open and forwared on the the router.

Besides making sure the XP firewall is allowing the connection, some routers (all that I've seen) don't allow you to forward the same port range to more than one machine.  If that is the case you have to pick a different range for one of the computers and then forward that.

Give that a try, if it doesn't help, let me know.

When I do an outside port probe of 6885 it shows it as open. I used www.grc.com Shields UP port probe.

When you forward your ports with the Linksys router, just make sure:

a) no forwarded ports are overlapping
b) you are forwarding ports to the right ip address

ie, in the applicable boxes do something like

name: win2kBT
start: 6881 to 6884
protocol: both
ip address 192.168.1.100

name: winXpBT
start: 6885 to 6889
protocol: both
ip address 192.168.1.101

Now, your ip address may not .100 and .101
In the start menu, go to 'run'
type in 'cmd'
then 'ipconfig'
should display what exactly is your local ip address.


Hope this helps,

[ford prefect]

Heres what I have going on.

the DSL modem router to the Linksys router

Is it a modem or a router?  Usually modems don't require port forwarding so I'm confused with the above double forwarding going on...

[sml42]

It seems to me that you have the ports forwarded to the wrong machine.  I also have a two machine setup, and here's what I've done.  One machine (machine A) has a local IP address of 127.0.0.2 and machine B has an address of 127.0.0.4  Machine A has ports 6881-6889 open and forwarded on the router.  Machine B has ports 6900-6908 open and forwared on the the router.

I hope you meant to write 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.4 - using 127.x.x.x is wrong. That's the loopback device, and you should never see any traffic on your local ethernet for that destination.

The port forwarding advice is right on the money though: you need to configure your router so that it knows which of your two machines to forward incoming data to! Using different port ranges for each machine is the way to go.

best regards,
stephen