Utorrent and client ICS

17 Sep 2006 1:56 PM

John Jay Smith

I have 2 xp machines and I am running uTorrent on the client ICS.
The Server ICS is connected directly to the internet (without router).
All Firewalls are ok.
I have enabled UPnP Device detection on the XP ICS server machine...

I have also gone into the XP firewall > advanced> settings> services and
added
uTorrent MANUALLY so that uTorrent can be portforwarded through the ICS
server to the internet.

I want to ask this question:

uTorrent has the ability to use UPnP, shouldnt this configuration happen
automatically,
instead of me having to go and add the ports manually in the
XP firewall > advanced> settings> services ???
If not is there any way I CAN make it happen automatically?

Just like a UPnP router opens its ports when a UPnP application asks,
shouldnt the XP ICS that is a software router behave similarly?

Thanks in advance!

17 Sep 2006 3:45 PM

Ian

For uTorent to work at full speed, you need to forward an INBOUND port to
the torrent machine. It doesn't matter which port as long as it's an unused
one - there is a setting in uTorrent to determine which port, and this must
match the one forwarded.

Now for the tricky bit - I don't *think* ICS provides inbound
port-forwarding.

You could however get round this by putting a portmapper on the ICS machine.
You can get one from http://www.analogx.com With this, just remap the open
port from the ICS machine (source) to the same portnumber on the torrent
machine (destination) - and open this port on the firewall of both.

Download:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pmapper.htm
(this is awell-tested program and very unlikely to cause trouble)

17 Sep 2006 9:40 PM

John Jay Smith

No reason ICS has this built in, I describe the situation in my original
post.
I was doing everything correctly.

I configured it and it worked right away.

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>
> For uTorent to work at full speed, you need to forward an INBOUND port to
> the torrent machine. It doesn't matter which port as long as it's an
> unused
> one - there is a setting in uTorrent to determine which port, and this
> must
> match the one forwarded.
>
> Now for the tricky bit - I don't *think* ICS provides inbound
> port-forwarding.
>
> You could however get round this by putting a portmapper on the ICS
> machine.
> You can get one from http://www.analogx.com With this, just remap the open
> port from the ICS machine (source) to the same portnumber on the torrent
> machine (destination) - and open this port on the firewall of both.
>
> Download:
> http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pmapper.htm
> (this is awell-tested program and very unlikely to cause trouble)
>
>