Well, now...

One must assume from your comments above that you are in an administrative role... OR, gosh and golly, maybe even a real parent !!! ???

If you need to BLOCK access to so-called Gnutella clients, it is very easy... Far easier than for the millions of university students out there who WANT to enable Gnutella Network connects !

What exactly is it that you wish to do ?
The 'why' is not so important, but may help others in providing you with a one-time intelligent reply.

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qbertprime yes UPnP is much prefered. So set your Linksys for UPnP & do the same for LW. AFAIK The newer model Linksys have reliable UPnP. But there are times LW or the device doesn't handle UPnP by losing connection. Most Linksys devices 'should' be very safe for the UPnP setting. With UPnP set, port forwarding is not necessary! UPnP does the same job by opening the appropriate port at the request of the program.

TCP & UDP both should be enabled for access. It's your choice of which port to set up to use.

I'll await Inflynx's responses to Ursula's questions before I answer. Knowing the environment of use will help.

Thanks for replies

God no, im not a parent At least not yet

Im actually having a small home network which i share with several other roommates. The only difference is that i have got all the passwords and the understanding of how that all works.

Thoses guys are using Limewire. I have to admit that LW is a vary good software so while it is been used all the internet goes terriblly slow. Not very good for me since i never use gnutella.

The case though is that im not farmilia how to configure Netgear DG834G router to block 6346 port. I mean i did configure built-in firewall for blocking in- & out- connections for any local IP addresses, but it doesnt stop LW from getting connected and working.

It sounds to me negotiation about times of use would be the best answer so everybody is happy. Otherwise there's going to be some very cheesed off roommates.

Blocking the port via your Netgear might not necessarily totally block their use of LW however. There's filters that can be used on networks but these are commercial programs.

Blocking the port in this way usually stops the software which is using it.
Way doesnt it stop LW than?

It depends on the particular router device. Some will totally block the incoming & outgoing from certain ports whereas some will only close off incoming. I'm not sure about netgear. There may be other ways you can set it up. I've sent a pm to another member for their thoughts.

@Inflynx:

i have a linksys router, but you might also have the ability to do the same in the netgear router with a slight modification to the steps. but in my advanced setup, it has a filters tab, i click that and i have full control over which computers can access outside of my network, along with which computers can access which ports, and network wide port filtering.

if your users are dumb enough, they would never no how to change limewire to use another port if you block it. you may want to disable upnp also. but like as i was saying, if they happen to find out how to change the port number, then that block wont work. but you can always figure out what port they set it to via the routers DHCP clients table (if your network is using dhcp) along side using the router log to verify which computer is accessing which ports. (atleast on my router it has this)...

if you want to goto the extreme, (on my router) you can block mac addresses (nic hardware addresses) (or IP addresses if mac blocking is too difficult) from using a certain protocol on a range of ports. however, gnutella is not on the list (since its not a standard network protocol)... BUT if you block the UDP protocol on all ports (1 to 65535), then LimeWire wont be able to do any FW2FW transfers at all. (this means no uploads or downloads.) and remember to disable the upnp service on the router so their machines cant open ports because this will circumvent the whole process.

but it still will beable to connect to the network using tcp (which is RECOMMENED THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BLOCK TCP since that is the basic communication protocol of the internet, and you would block your users from accessing even webpages).

-this is not a guide, but it is reference as to what you may want to do-

-ultracross

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Many thanks, guys. I will be trying this

What you need to do is to limit the dl/up speed of LWs on each machine so they don't slow down the network [total bandwidth (up then down) available minus 25% / number of people using LW]. Go in Options -> downloads to limit dl speed, go in Options -> transfers -> basic to limit upload speed.

There is no way you'll be able to block totally LW from your netgear without serioulsy impairing basic internet traffic on your network. You would need a software solution acting as a router/gateway ie a linux/openbsd box.

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Hi Everyone,

First of all I'd like to say "Hi" , as I've just regisitered.

I was wondering if anyone can help me. I've just installed the new version,have done everything that was mentioned to set up the firewall and still I can't connect. I know the port isn't blocked.

My Older version 4.8.1 stopped working sometime in late May for some strange reason. I cleared out everything to do with the older version and installed the new version.

Sob and still I can't connect.

My ISP is Plus.net does anyone know whether they have started to block Limewire as there is nothing on their website about it.

Hope someone can help,

Thanks.