Allow torrent client through IPFIREWALL

[Bunyan]

I have recently set up ipfirewall on my FreeBSD box with my own set of rules. The firewall allows connections based on YAHOO [

add 00070 allow tcp from any to any 6881 out via fxp0 setup keep-state

and XMPP

add 00070 allow tcp from any to any 5222 out via fxp0 setup keep-state

protocols.

Azureus torrent client seems to not work when firewall is enabled. I added the following lines to ipfw.rules:

add 00070 allow tcp from any to any 24445 out via fxp0 setup keep-state
add 00070 allow tcp from any to any 64616 out via fxp0 setup keep-state

But still, Azureus cannot get connected to the tracker, while firewall being active. What rule(s) should I add?

Thanks.

 

[SirDice]

You need to allow all traffic going out. Most people change the port their bittorrent client runs on. So you can't just allow only connections out to a specific port.

For most torrent clients you will also need to allow a specific port coming in from the internet. For transmission the default is udp/tcp 51413, mldonkey uses 6881. Check the documentation for Azureus.

 

[fbsd1]

ipfirewall and ipfw are two different firewalls which are both included in the basic FreeBSD release. Also the rules syntax is different between them. ipfirewall rules file is /etc/ipf.rules not ipfw.rules. Read the handbook firewall section for the details.

 

[Bunyan]

ipfirewall rules file is /etc/ipf.rules not ipfw.rules. Read the handbook firewall section for the details.

Oh, really? As far as I know, IPFILTER uses /etc/ipf.rules by default, and IPFIREWALL /etc/ipfw.rules.
It's just amazing!
I think you have a different copy of the Handbook.