Firewall: Ports
 

High there.

I cannot upload.

I'm running Qtella behind a firewall.
The Firewall uses a dial-in connection (dynamic ip).

The dynamic-ip-prob should be solved with the "interface: hostname" option from network-setup & my dnsName wich is mapped to the dynIP. (right?)

Now the ports:
I entered port 6346 in the "ports" field (networkSetup). Then I activated port-forwarding of port 6346 to my qtella box on the firewall.

But my qtella never uploads anything. Ther's a lot of stuff shown on the "shared files" tab.

What's wrong? the Firewall forwards tcp & udp.

The right IP must be displayed in the "Force IP"-Field.

Are you also missing incoming connections in the "connection tab"?

Do you get connected with telnet? "telnet your_domain 6346"

> The right IP must be displayed in the
> "Force IP"-Field.

It is. (I checked the ip with ifconfig on the firewall).
btw: "Interface" always switches back to "File" when I restart qtella.

> Are you also missing incoming
> connections in the "connection tab"?

there are only "Outgoing" connects displayed. I set "Outgoing connects" & Incoming connects to "5".

> Do you get connected with telnet?
> "telnet your_domain 6346"

a telnet from within my subnet says:
---- schnipp ----
gunter@aule:~ > telnet manwe 6346
Trying 192.168.0.1...
Connected to manwe.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
---- schnapp ----

Jeah! Got it!

a telnet from outside the FW _now_ does the same

ipchains was to swallow all the unlucky packages!
I changed its rules and now i get incoming connects!

[pre]
---- schnipp ----
pkts bytes target prot opt tosa tosx ifname mark outsize source destination ports
0 0 ACCEPT tcp ------ 0xFF 0x00 ippp0 !192.168.0.0/24 anywhere 1024:65535 -> 6346
---- schnapp ----
[/pre]


Jepp! It works now!

sorry, I should have checked ipchains before...

thank U,
-> Gunter

I'm not sure i follow here. If I'm behind a firewall and my ip is 192.168.122.155 I use the manaul option if the config tab? but what about the telnet option you spoke of? On these systems telnet is not allowed to be used. 'Cause as the other person said I'm getting almost no uploads.

I looked and if there are supposed to be incoming connections showing up in the connection tab then I got problems, 'cause I got none.

If some program wants to connect to an other prog via internet. it needs to know the right ip-Adress to reach the mashine. Then it needs the right "port"-number to reach the right program on the mashine.

Your IP 192.168.x.x is not reachable via internet. The IP-adress you are reachable with via internet is the one of your firewall.

the port-number which tells your computer to deliver the ip-packages to the gnutella-software is probably blocked by your firewall. So first you need to allow connections on this port (usually 6346) at your firewall.
The Firewall should in no way run any software like a gnutella-client! what u need to do next is to tell the firewall, to send all ip-packages which want to establish a connection on 6346 to your qtella-computer (192.168.122.155) on your lan.
how u do this depends on what progs u use on ur firewall.

Telnet can connect to any port. i.e. you can "telnet www.gnutellaforums.com 80" to see the answer of this webserver. if u see any answer (other than "not reachable" i.e. :-]) u know that it's possible to reach a prog which listens on this port.

I've had the same problem. However I have forwarded the 6346 port from my firewall machine to my machine (the one that uses qtella). When I telnet to the ip addy (of the firewall machine) I get a connection refused messsage. other than installing qtella on my machine, what modifications do I need to make so it will accept these incoming requests on port 6346? I'm running rh72.....

Well I've made more prgress with my installation. my previous post (directly above this one) I was having connection problems, well I've gotten to the point were Qtella will accept incoming connections, how ever I still get all errors when I try to download. I am able to down load as root however, but I'd rather not run the program as root. Another thing, I was wodering if there is a way around the force IP box. I have to force the IP of my firewall/masq machine but that isn't a good situation for me since the IP on that machine isn't static and changes regularly... Thanks for any help!

Well I've made more prgress with my installation. my previous post (directly above this one) I was having connection problems, well I've gotten to the point were Qtella will accept incoming connections, how ever I still get all errors when I try to download. I am able to down load as root however, but I'd rather not run the program as root. Another thing, I was wodering if there is a way around the force IP box. I have to force the IP of my firewall/masq machine but that isn't a good situation for me since the IP on that machine isn't static and changes regularly... Thanks for any help!
AAron

Have you checked the permissions of the directories for the completed and incompleted downloads?

Boy do I feel like an idiot... the permissions were the problem.... thanks for the help...
Aaron