[Leaplist] Re: Fedora 9

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:11:30 pm Jim Hartley wrote:
> Care to be a little more specific? I think the Router/Hub has a firewall
> built in - is that one going to be a problem?

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/bittorrent/qt/bittorrentports.htm

With that said, I don't run firewalls on my internal network computers since I 
trust the other computers here at home. I rely on the firewall to protect all 
of the computers from the internet at large.

This is considered poor form for businesses, but it's a risk I accept at home. 
Even without a firewall, Linux is darned hard to break into from a network 
connection.

As far as configuring a firewall, it's a well known fact that you need to 
forward ports to internal machines if you want the world to be able to get to 
that machine.

On my firewall, I forward ports 6881:6999 and 4444 to my Linux desktop for 
BitTorrent use. I also forward the ssh port, port 22. I leave these 
forwarded, so it's a one time setting.

This allows me to secure shell to my machine from the outside world and it 
allows BitTorrents, which I use all the time, to run without being throttled 
by the other BitTorrent clients.

Also, if your router and firewall understands uPnP, then there are several 
BitTorrent clients that will unlock the firewall for you. My firewall doesn't 
and requires manual settings.

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