how to resolve lowid?

chunlee · 12-23-2004, 06:04 AM

hi there:

i have been trying out various p2p apps and have run into the problem of "lowid". it basically says that i have lowid.

i have tried opening ports in my Belkin (enabling inbound/private poarts in virtual servers section) router and its still the same.

is there anyting i need to set up inside Linux? something like the network conf or somthing.

many thanks

CHUN

ps. i have a dual boot with XP and since the ports opend in the router, p2p works perfectly in XP but still the same (lowid) in linux (FC2).

JCdude2525 · 12-23-2004, 09:33 AM

What do you mean by p2p, like file sharing? I use Limewire for that, Limewire works a lot better. All you need is Java, and the ability to edit the PATH variable....

-Jim

chunlee · 12-23-2004, 09:45 AM

i mean nad have tried xmule, amule, overnet

i might give limewire a try somtime

cheers

CHUN

SlackerLX · 12-23-2004, 09:57 AM

If firewalled, p2p client will always get lowid.
Opening port 4662, however, will solve this pridicament

chunlee · 12-23-2004, 11:02 AM

thanks, i understand that i will have to open port 4662 for tcp and 4672 for udp. i (think) i have already doen so on my router. i guess my question is that is there a conf file that i need to specify somewhere in linux?

cheers
CHUN

SlackerLX · 12-23-2004, 11:11 AM

I'm not sure how it is done in fedora. but in Slack I give rule to firestarter firewall and c'est tout

chunlee · 12-23-2004, 11:29 AM

ok, i think this is where i am stuck, i don't know much about network stuff. i presume firestarter is the app that manages the firewall, right? so what i need to do is to find out what app fedora uses for firewall and then apply the rules to it, right? but i remember that i desabled firewall when installing fedora back then though.

cheers

CHUN