allowing bittorrent through an ipchains firewall

chucky88 · 04-13-2004, 08:23 PM

I'm new and I'm trying to allow bittorrent through my ipchains firewall.

I've found the command that will allow it to work through iptables i.e.

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 6881:6889 -j DNAT --to-destination <host>

if anyone knows the ipchain command that will help, it will be appreciated

thanks

Capt_Caveman · 04-15-2004, 06:10 PM

Port forwarding is an ugly beast in ipchains. This HOWTO might be helpfull:

http://www.praveen-linux.8m.com/art/portforward.htm

Better yet, upgrade to a version of linux that has iptables support