I recently installed Azureus on Fedora Core 4 and am having a strange problem, everything runs fine, the NAT tests etc.. I also get green smileys on a bunch of the torrents. The problem is that nothing downloads. The Downloaded column never shows anything but 0 B for any files. I've tried files with 10ks of seeds and peers, but get 0 seeds and 0 peers connected. I have write access to the dir that the files are being written too, and I've checked to make sure the files are being created.

I run shorewall for my firewall, which I feel I have configured correctly.

Here is my /etc/shorewall/rules file

#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE ORIGINAL RATE USER/
# PORT PORT(S) DEST LIMIT GROUP
ACCEPT net fw tcp http

#Allow a connection to the firewall itself for ssh
SSHKnock net fw tcp 22,665,666,667

#Allow a connection to the firewall itself for ftp and torrents
#FTPKnock net fw tcp 21,68,69,70
ACCEPT net fw udp 6881:6889,16881
ACCEPT net fw tcp 6881:6889,21,16881

#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE

I tried setting the azureus port to 16881 in case my ISP was blocking torrents, but that didn't help. Also I am able to get DCC transfers in irc fine, any one have any thoughts?

Have you checked your router and/or switch settings? On something like a Linksys WRT54G you have to go in and specify the ports that need to be opened.

I'm on a static ip off of a 1.5meg dsl line. There is a linksys router between me and the dsl but it's acting strictly as a router, not a gateway, there is no NAT going on there or anything. The only reason it is there is because I have 5 ips and two other machines on the same connection and the DSL modem itself has no extra ports.

How did you go with this? Dd you sort it out? I have the same problem, perfect nat port, green smilies on torrents, and 0 downloaded just sits there.

No luck still. Are you running a firewall also? I tried disabling it and get the same crap. I don't understand what's going on. The filenames even get created in the directory and show up as being the size of the final download.

Yeah same here. I disabled my router firewall and it made no difference. Actually I didn't check my software firewall, but I don't think it's running anyway. Might try that tonight

sausagejohnson, did you get it working? I can disable all firewalls, and set my router to DMZ, and no good here...

As a matter of fact, yes and it had nothing to do with specific settings. It seems that routers can go a little flakey after a while. My teamspeak server was playing up too around the same time.

I did a hardware reset of my router and set up my port forwarding from scratch. Fixed!

Definately worth trying.

But Azureus stays green? I mean, I get the green face...

I also get this error:

"GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 4198400):
May lead to memory leak and poor performance."

Well, I don't know about the error you're getting but I used to get the green faces and 0 download. Every time. It looked perfect but no data came down.

Until I hardware reset the router back to factory settings and started over. I suggest you eliminate that possibility first.

Okay, well, I don't use the default firmware. I use DD-WRT. But I'll reset. Un momento. *Bets fifty dollars this won't work.

Reseting, what is it good for?

Absolutly nothing, say it again!

Heh, sorry, I know, you did have a point. It was good to rule that out. But I knew that wasn't the case. Still no go!

Other straight Windows machines can download torrents, not my Linux one... I think I always had this problem...

Edit: I installed Azureus on my Windows box. It downloads. It's getting the internet forwarded from the Linux machine. So It's just a setting that it doesn't like.

Edit: Edit: Gotta love the 4kbps download speed.