LimeWire Community: Submitting Firewall Instructions
 

Dear Beta Community,
We are about to start a information campaign for our users. We want to make it easy for them to open up ports in their firewall so that their LimeWire experience will be better. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of different hardware/software routers/firewalls in existence, so we cannot provide general instructions. It would really help if those in the community wrote instructions for their specific hardware/software router/firewall and submitted them to us so we can consolidate them in one central location. We will then push that location to users who we detect are behind a firewall. More nonfirewalled clients on the network is better for everyone, but most especially for the individual user.

We would really appreciate any and all submissions. You can submit a link here or mail us a packaged html/txt file to webmaster at limewire. Screenshots in your instructions are preferred :) .

Thanks!
Susheel Daswani
Software Engineer
Lime Wire LLC

Linksys EtherFast® Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch (BEFSR41)
 

Forwarding port 6346 on the Linksys router to your machine.
Go in your browser and enter the address 192.168.1.1 the password by default is "admin" (For security you should change the password).
http://cmt.homeip.net/documents/192.168.jpg
Press the tab Advanced seen in the menus.
Then select the tab Forwarding. http://cmt.homeip.net/documents/forward.jpg Enter the port 6346 and check UDP and TCP protocols, check enable and enter your lan IP (if your lan IP has been set automatically -by DHCP- you can find your address at 192.168.1.1/DHCP.htm , click on the DHCP Clients Table button at the bottom, there you'll see the name of your computer with the lan address ie 192.168.1.100, remember the last 3 digits and go put them in the Forwarding tab field. Click apply and voilà!

Opening your gnutella port behind D-Link Broadband Routers
 

Here is a link to D-Link's FAQ on how to open your gnutella port on their line of broadband routers.

They didn't mention to the user how they can even find out their local IP address. In Windows 98, that can be done by clicking Start, then Run, then typing "winipcfg" and then selecting the proper network adapter from the dropdown list that is connected to the broadband router and your local IP address will show there and that is the private IP you would put in their instructions.

Hi Susheel,

here are my instructions for the DrayTek 2200 series and Netgear MR314 router (yes I use two routers :D)

DrayTek 2200 series DSL/CABLE Router
http://www.kapsi.de/files/limewire/DrayTek2200/

NETGEAR CableDSL Wireless Router MR314
http://www.kapsi.de/files/limewire/NetgearMR314/

BearShare has some firewall tutorials
http://www.bearshare.com/help/firewalls/

Jens-Uwe Mager has added some useful info on ports and firewalls here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=23585

Salut à tous, I found the holy grail about routers:
http://portforward.com/default.htm
To get a static address (much better for setting port forwarding):
http://portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm
To open port 6346 on router and make port fowarding:
http://portforward.com/routers.htm

Voilà!!!
:)