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Iptables - Allowing BitTorrent & aMule Traffic

I am trying to get bittorrent and amule working with iptables.

currently I have the following in my input chain

Code:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT 

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6969 -j ACCEPT

and in the output chain:

Code:

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT

Both outgoing and incoming related/established are allowed, and everything else gets dropped and logged...

What do I need to add to this to make bittorrent work? I have been getting short-lived, sporadic connections, that only allow downloading (at very low speed) and do not upload at all.

As far as amule - I can connect, but always get lowID connections. what do I need to do?

Thanks,
Mr Snorfles

If it gets logged like you say, what characteristics do the dropped packets share?

Could you post your iptables script for us to look at, this will help us to get an idea of the rules that are already in place, you may have a stray rule somewhere that might be stopping traffic passing through.