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Old October 11th, 2008
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Default Port Forwarding vs. UPNP - A Bricks Wall question

Hello to the Big Gnutella Community and this subgroup dedicated to LW users.
Before publishing this Thread, I tried googling and searching among the posts and the Sticky suggestions.
Anyway I apologize in advance if the answer to my question, is something easy to achieve even for a Koala browsing this forum .

Of course I didn't check the solution proposed here, yet (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html).

This because my copy of Free LW (the 4.18.8 and Java 1.6.0_07) works.
In the sense that it connects and, reading the display bars, it works properly (a very strong connection is reported) both through UPNP that Using NAT and Port Forwarding (Virtual Server).

Despite of this, with Port Forwarding the bricks wall stand in front of the world Icon and LW detects a firewall even if I configured all properly.

I started peering years ago with mIRC scripts (Glorious SDSailor/Omen ones on Undernet) and on the same domestic network (on other machines of my 7 PCs small LAN managed by a USR 9108a Wireless ADSL 2+ Router, with UPNP activated awa port forwarding both for TCP and UDP on the ports reported on LW-Tools-Options-Advanced-Firewall) a copy of Emule gets an High ID and everything's is right.

So, I know that someone could say "Why you decide to bother the forum if your UPNP works?". But I can't help it.

I must find a reason for it, otherwise I can't sleep (thanks to this very common nevrosis I learned the ICT Job that helpes me to procure everyday food for me and my dog).


I tried to:
  • Reboot many times LW
  • Reboot the machines
  • Exclude the Onecare Firewall (I know this software very well and I have a lot of exceptions perfectly working)
  • Change the port number on LW, Onecare and Router.
  • Rebooting the Router (anyway I open ports everyday for my ICT Job and I know this router and its beahvior very well and there's no need to reboot it after adding exceptions)
It seems like that LW Manual Port Forward Option automatically turns on the "Bricks Wall on the World" Icon.
Despite of the networking conf. you setup behind.
Is this possible?


About the remaining configuration info, I can say that LW runs on:
  • Vista Business SP1 - ITA
  • AMD Athlon XP 2600
  • Nvidia Motherboard
  • I GB RAM
  • Nvidia Ethernet Controller
  • Static LAN IP (Port Forwarding needs it)
  • Router USR 9108a with Updated Firmware
  • Italian Telecom as a Service Provider
  • ADSL 2000/256
Any suggestion is welcome and is better than 25 Lormetazepam drops

All the Best

Stefania Castelli
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