Hi!
I opened two ports (40000 for tcp and 40001 for udp) at suse firewall, in order my torrent client to work properly.
(I have Azureus and KTorrent at OpenSUSE v13.1 x64 with KDE).
However, sometimes the client works without any problems, while some others seems to be firewalled and can’t communicate properly with the outside world.
Seems to be a random effect.
I disabled the firewall and everything is OK now.
(I have always enabled the router’s (build-in, hardware) firewall.
Just out of curiosity, is there any way to keep suse firewall enabled?
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> I disabled the firewall and everything is OK now.
> (I have always enabled the router’s (build-in, hardware) firewall.
> Just out of curiosity, is there any way to keep suse firewall enabled?
You’re assuming that the firewall is somehow being enabled. Chances are
much higher that, while enabled, something about the traffic is different
enough to cause a problem in those cases where there is a failure.
To see your current firewall state, run the follow command(s) (either will
work, they just show things differently):
Do this when things work, and then do it again when it breaks. Compare,
and I’ll bet you see no difference in the iptables-save output, though you
may see some in the iptables output because of additional statistical
information presented.
To see lots from the firewall:
Code:
sudo tail -f /var/log/firewall #perform test after running the command above
#ctrl+c to stop tailing the firewall log file
If you see something in the log file output above when your torrent client
is failing to do something, post that output. This generally implies you
run this ‘tail’ command, do the test, then post what showed up.
If the torrent client can specify what is going on that too may be
helpful; they are the ones trying to use the network, so they should be in
a good position to tell you what is failing.
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Good luck.
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