Firewall settings?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 01:28, under.actuate at gmail.com wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>What's the best way to go about opening the required firewall ports to
> allow Azureus?
>
For the newest bittorrent 4 something, I'm using this script, located 
in /etc/sysconfig directory:
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#!/bin/bash
BTFORWARDADDR=192.168.71.3 PORTSTART=6881 PORTEND=6999
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport $PORTSTART:
$PORTEND -j DNAT --to-destination $BTFORWARDADDR
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -s $BTFORWARDADDR -p tcp --dport $PORTSTART:
$PORTEND -j ACCEPT
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called iptables-pass-torrent, and although I'm all eth0 and eth1, that 
ppp0 isn't hurting it.

Then, to shut it back off, I just do a service iptables restart, which 
reloads my default rules.

Don't forget to port forward those ports in your router too. :)

>-jared

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