The Coolest Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hey guys,I recently setup a Smoothwall and forwarded TCP and UDP ports for uTorrent, and it works ok and the network status is green.The question I want to ask is this:When I look at my firewall logs, I can see some strange traffic going out of the uTorrent PC and is destinned to the same local IP address of the PC.Smoothwall blocks this traffic. Every time this kind of thing comes in pairs, each pair of attempts uses a different source port.Here's a screenshot of smoothwall log to make things clearer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 loopback connections happen because your IP gets included in the peerlists.Just allow it so it'll ban itself and then stop trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coolest Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Ok, thanks I'll give it a shot.*EDIT:* The problem is I have no idea what port it is going to use next, so I can't really forward it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 When I look at my firewall logs, I can see some strange traffic going out of the uTorrent PC and is destinned to the same local IP address of the PC.Smoothwall blocks this traffic.Prevent this block. uTorrent can sort out the connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coolest Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 As I just edited in the previous post, I can't forward or unblock a port without knowing which port its going to use next.There is no other way to do this.Is this important? Or can I just let it go?Lately running uTorrent on my computer would cause complete system freezing. It could be my hard drive's fault or just silly Windows problem, but could it be this? (really doubt it, just wondering) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 It's not important, just let it go.System freezes/hiccups are often an indication of an HDD having a hard time reading data, meaning it could be going bad, or your IDE cable is busted (which happened to me, changed my cable and all is well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coolest Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Thanks for the quick help.That's some interesting info there.I bet its the harddrive, its making strange noises sometimes. It seems that it works, and I ran the diagnostic test by seagate (Its a 120GB 7200.7 PATA) and it passed it with no problems.Either way regarding the cable, I have my second hard drive hooked up to the same cable (only 2 IDE connectors on the board and 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives) and it seems to work quite well.Thanks again, and I'll try to find this elusive lockup culprit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Yeah, that's the thing, I also had two HDDs hooked up, and only one of them acted up. It's worth a try if you're gonna reboot anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coolest Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'm waiting on some new components to arrive, then the drives will be hooked up to SATA (through ATA to SATA adapters), so no more bad IDE cables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coolest Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Well, I replaced the ATA cable today, didn't help.I guess its time to contact Seagate.Thanks all for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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