Hello Gene, thank you very much for your answer. However, I am a completly ignorant regarding NAT... after reading your advice, I went to the NAT howto and I was scared...
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 17:59, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >Dear debianners, > > > >I've just installed Azureus as my .torrent client. During its > >configuration the wizard checks for the 6881 TCP port reporting the > >following message: "Testing port 6881... NAT error". I would like to > >know how to open this port. I've surfed the list, googled the web > >without success. I am wired to the Internet by an ADSL connection. I > >wonder if this problem involves my Internet provider... > >Thanks in advance for any help! > > > More than likely you'll need to setup a NAT rule in iptables. iptables is, in fact, an (from the man page) "administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT". You suggest to use iptables to set up a NAT rule, isn't? > I have > the NAT being done in the router, my router, I guess, is with my IP provider... I can't do anything in that machine... > by forwarding this range of ports > directly to this machines address. Its all setup in the router for > that. > > But I also have to open up iptables a wee bit on my firewall box, with > this rule: I don't have a firewall installed in my machine... > ----------- > #!/bin/bash > BTFORWARDADDR=192.168.xx.3 PORTSTART=6881 PORTEND=6999 > /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -s $BTFORWARDADDR -p tcp --dport $PORTSTART: > $PORTEND -j ACCEPT > ----------- > Where the "xx" is a real number of course. My problem is that I want to open port 6881 (or another one,following Chris Howie's tip) for Azureus. I have sarge installed in my machine at home, wired to my Internet Provider trough an ADSL connection. I would like to be able to open the ports without having to study the gory details of NAT... sorry, I am not lazy, I don't have the time for it... With the best regards, Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
