Static IP, Port Forwarding, Windows Vista, Wireless Router, Head Exploding

[mauvais]

Just a black screen doing nowt.

That's fine then, no problem there.

 

[Radar]

Didn't we already try this?

Ah.. Must have been on another thread. I got a feeling of deja vu myself, searched this one and didn't find it

Crap.. So in any case, we can't seem to connect to your machine..

What's the command for listing the ports being listened on, I don't have access to a windows box at the moment OK, it's netstat -a

Do that while azureus is running and look through its output for your portno 51111

 

[Radar]

Fuckin hell

I'm going to bed

Either someone is sneaking in and inserting posts while my back is turned, or my brain's about to shut down and only registering one post in four..

Nighty night

 

[slainte]

King I will get back to you ironically my home router died yesterday so I only have net access at work which is busy at the mo.
Have a solution for you PM me

 

[Radar]

Or keep it in the forums and let everyone have the benefit of your experience

Tis what they're here for.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Right.
Still now Joy - but Az. has just given me the message "a uPnP device is taking a long time to release it's settings" or some such.

Should I try picking the other uPnP settings?

 

[Radar]

You could try to, but unless you're getting that error pretty regularly it sounds like it might be a one off.

At this stage, think simple, think testable.

I'd be tempted to grab the PC, plonk it beside the router, hook it up via ethernet and manually configure port fowarding to your PC's ethernet IP address. You can deffo use wireshark over ethernet, that will tell you if the router is forwarding incoming connections or not. (You' should see a tcp SYN packet with the dest port of 51111 hit your PC. If you see that SYN, but see no replying SYN-ACK go back out or see an ICMP error then your PC/Azureus/firewall is blocking things. If you never see a SYN then the router is probably blocking things.

Don't forget to change the ip address forwarded to from your ethernet IP to your Wifi IP if you think you have it working and want to check wifi again.

God love you !! You've not had much luck with bittorrent recently, have you ?

 

[King Biscuit Time]

blimey, that sounds pretty involved. May try It later if I can summon up the energy to dismantle my comp and take it downstairs!

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Its U/ling now - but all local connections only

 

[Radar]

Its U/ling now - but all local connections only

Well whether a BT connection allows ul, dl or both is totally independent of whether the connection is local or remote.

All that local or remote means is whether you connected to them or they connected to you. Either way, once the connection is established the direction of dataflow depends who needs data. If you have packets they want, then you'll ul. If they have packets you want, you'll dl. And so on.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Right - so thats why I can get good u/l rates on things like popular films, but crap for loads of obscure albums that people will only want once in a blue moon?

 

[Radar]

blimey, that sounds pretty involved. May try It later if I can summon up the energy to dismantle my comp and take it downstairs!

It is a fag. Unfortunately you're likely to go around in circles until we have solid evidence of what's working and what isn't.

At the moment we don't know whether the router is allowing incoming connections through in the first place, whether they're being forwarded to your PC and whether your PC is actually allowing the connections to be established or not.

Sniffing an Azureus session, we should see evidence to help figure which of the above is happening. If we see no incoming connections then we know its the router

I'm just giving the router manual a quick once-over to make sure we haven't missed something obvious

 

[Radar]

Right - so thats why I can get good u/l rates on things like popular films, but crap for loads of obscure albums that people will only want once in a blue moon?

You got it.

Seeding Popular torrents that people are still trying to grab should generate incoming connections. Even if nobody is trying to download it, wireshark should let you see the periodic connections from other seeders in the swarm that get closed down because they're not needed. (No need for a connection to someone else with 100% if you have 100% too. Neither of you can help the other)

 

[Radar]

Right.
Still now Joy - but Az. has just given me the message "a uPnP device is taking a long time to release it's settings" or some such.

Should I try picking the other uPnP settings?

Actually you don't need to. They correspond to the routers ability to open up more than once WAN connection. You don't use that so that's why uPnP only allowed you to select pvc0.

[scratch that. Not needed for uPnP clients]

 

[keybored]

Sorry for arriving at the party late. Just got back on broadband with a new router, and I'm finding this site fantastic: http://www.portforward.com/

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Actually you don't need to. They correspond to the routers ability to open up more than once WAN connection. You don't use that so that's why uPnP only allowed you to select pvc0.

[scratch that. Not needed for uPnP clients]

i meant to say - this router you can fiddle with remotely - fancy it?

 

[keybored]

i meant to say - this router you can fiddle with remotely - fancy it?

Are you still using the C&W router? Which firmware?

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Nah - I'm on a D-link DSL-G624T now

 

[keybored]

Make sure you've set up a static IP on your PC. Then follow this link:
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Dlink/DSL-G624T/Azureus.htm

ETA The link for that router isn't too clear about the static IP bit. Be sure to enter the static IP of your PC into the 'LAN IP' box (in the Port Forwarding page on your router).

 

[Radar]

Make sure you've set up a static IP on your PC. Then follow this link:
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Dlink/DSL-G624T/Azureus.htm

ETA The link for that router isn't too clear about the static IP bit. Be sure to enter the static IP of your PC into the 'LAN IP' box (in the Port Forwarding page on your router).

That's for manual forwarding, which we already tried last week. However it can't hurt to try it again, it wouldn't be the first time something works 2nd time round

We also tried uPnP and that didn't work either (Azzie couild talk to the UpNp process on the router, but there were still no incoming connections)

 

[keybored]

Pick a random port between 49152 and 65535....

Tried changing the listen port on Azureus to one in the above range? Then match it in the router of course. I'm clutching at straws here, but there must be some reason for them putting that bit in.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Yeah been doing that.

 

[keybored]

Hrm
I know it was suggested earlier, but did you try setting that PC as a demilitarized host in the DMZ settings? And if that doesn't work disable any software firewalls on the PC? And if that still doesn't work I guess that just leaves your ISP... Sorry can't think of anything else.