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I assume it's the settings in McAfee that are causing the problem. I went into the firewall section and added BitTornado to the list of programs that are allowed access to the Internet. But I assume there's some magical port-related thing that needs to be fixed as well. I'd really rather not turn the firewall off altogether, since I think having it is a generally fine idea. But assuming I'm not breaking things by torrenting (and assuming the files I'm torrenting are clean), what do I need to do to make a torrent-sized hole in the firewall?
Help?
ETA: I turned off the firewall temporarily, and started up BitTornado again. Same result. So it's not simply the firewall. But it has to be something in the protection suite.
ETA later: Fixed. Disabling UPnP forwarding in BitTornado solved the problem.
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Date: 2011-06-15 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-15 06:57 pm (UTC)Under the firewall settings, there's a whole set of options for Ports and System Services. There are a bunch of unchecked ones, and a checkmarks beside UPnP ports 5000, 1900, and 2869, and Common Operating Ports. Which sounds promising, except that if I need to open something up there, shouldn't turning off the firewall entirely have done the trick?
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Date: 2011-06-15 08:40 pm (UTC)