BitTorrent ports?

[seth vidal]

> My current firewall is rather tight, with as few ports as possibly open,
> including the range 6881:6999 TCP source and destination ports, plus
> 33301:34999 on TCP source (not sure if I need those). However, I still get
> loads of junk in my /var/log/message from my iptables setup whenever I run
> BT. Also, the up and down speeds are rather unimpressive; both about 10-20
> KB/s (I'm on a 3 Mb/s cable modem line). Should I open more ports? Should
> I open UDP?

Bittorrent needs to be able to talk to any host that is in the swarm.

So you need to allow connections from anywhere on ports 6881-6999 tcp

What sort of things are you seeing in your logs?

-sv