Franksun, thank you for your reply as I've really had no replies in the last 2 days.
In response to the suggestion, I would like to point out that I did forward these ports. Now I said EVERY, but I really only forwarded 1024-65535. I will admit that I know very little about IPTABLES because it's quite confusing as to where to packets are going, and which ones should be let in, and what table will handle which packet.
To be perfectly honest I don't know if I'm doing it right because I've put the port fowarding in (according to several online documents) and taken it out and I've seen no change in my BitTorrent dl/ul speeds nor have I seen any change in my P2P programs. I suspect that I've already done everything I need to in a different chain and just put an unneeded chain in the mix for my BT and P2P clients. I don't know exactly how to port forward because several online documents give different variations of how to do this. However, from what I gathered from reading them all, I basically need to have a rule in FORWARD table and a rule in PREROUTING.
I do however think that it's not the port forwarding that's the issue here. I think it's a problem with handling IRC's DCC protocol. If anyone has a similar situation here but your box does allow DCC traffic through, could you please paste an example ruleset to handle DCC traffic here for me to look at?
Thanks for you help.
zr0
P.S. I used the firewall work around with my dccserver and the client requesting just sits and waits while the host does absolutely nothing.
Last edited by zr0gravity; 02-05-2005 at 10:05 PM.
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