Well, being firewalled might have nothing to do with ZoneAlarm or Norton Personal Firewall that you hopefully are using.

It might also refer to the use of internal LAN addresses which are mapped to external addresses. This means your computer thinks it is using an address, say 10.0.0.1 or such, which can never be seen from outside, whereas an external IP is automatically mapped to you by your ISP.

This is the case with the DSL -provider I am using here in Finland.

My computer thinks it has the IP-address 10.124.33.44, which is a LAN address. In fact this is the IP for my ISP's internal network and all the traffic to the "real" Internet goes through the IP 62.248.etc.etc - but my computer doesn't necessarily know that.

This is becaue my ISP only has so many IP addresses to assign to their customers and every time I log out and stay logged out for 72 hours, my REAL IP address will sooner or later be assigned to someone else. When I log on again, I get another "real" IP address instead.

What you need to do is find out your real IP and put that in Gnotella's setup -> your connection -> force my local ip to: -field.

And a short rule: when you search for files on the Gnutella network, you know from the start that addresses that start with

10.
192.168.

WILL generate push requests. So if you can't configure your computer's remote IP in Gnotella for some reason - just avoid any files with the IP:s listed above when you download - that should save you some time. I've seen the IP 0.0.0.0 sometimes too - naturally that won't work either.

-JJ