Bittorrent

[Richard A. Franklin]

Brian Kelsay wrote:

>With Bittorrent and its brother BitTornado, getting a file becomes as easy as double clicking on it and choosing where to save.  That is pretty easy if you ask me.  Now for those with a firewall, there are simple instructions on the BitTornado site.  You do need to know how to login to and alter your firewall.  I opened a range of ports quite easily on IPCop, which I then disable after I finish getting the torrent and serving for a while.
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Okay, I continue to glean useful hints, and actual instruction, by 
opening kclug mail ... and curiosity overcomes total laziness. Besides, 
I just bothers me to use Windows to latch onto a Linux distro ISO 
torrent to feed to my finicky laptop.

After reinstalling Azureus (azureus-2.1.0.4-0.gbv.3.i586.rpm ... using 
SUSE 9.1 PRO), I received "NAT Error" when testing my setup with the 
config wizard ... after checking a couple of router "how to" sites, it 
seemed that I perhaps needed to adjust my router settings. Like, maybe 
enable UPnP? I still did not know for sure, so I toyed with it a bit.

Enabling UPnP had no effect; however, all is well after disabling the 
SUSE firewall (DUH?) ... Azureus opens little info windows, indicating 
which ports are being opened, and for what purposes, and it just works, 
regardless of whether I have checked, or unchecked the UPnP box in my 
router setup.

... SO, do I "need" the SUSE firewall on the desktop when I am using a 
Linksys BEFSR41 router??? Is there a reasonable, rational and sane 
option between "on" and "off"?

And yes, for the little I actually download, ftp could be just fine; but 
sometimes these things are just too fun to ignore, and I am sure that 
many of us home / home-office users flip a few bucks to developers from 
time to time, just to say thanks for NOT being Microsoft ... which still 
has not paid me my part of the 1.1 billion dollar CA class-action 
settlement ... I think it was around $17.00 in the form of some kinda 
mickey mouse voucher. Oops ... rant.