yet another firewall question

[gaba1]

hi,

sorry to open a new thread, but this is my last resort.

I have used uTorrent for a quite a bit without problems, but not long ago a server firewall was installed on our network. I knew what that was implying, and I contacted the network administrator to allow some of my programs to pass through the firewall. He agreed, and proceeded. Several ports were opened, and my other programs (eg. games) that previously were unable to connect to internet now are connecting.

For uTorrent I had requested to open a port range of 10 ports above 30000 in UDP and TCP protocols. I have been notified this was done, set the port in uTorrent, but nothing changes: uTorrent usully connects to trackers, but cannot connect to peers, I get the error messages (No incoming connection, Unable to map UPnP port and with 1.7 beta: Unable to map port with NAT-PMP. The port checker in the speed quide cannot detect the open port (although it cannot detect the other open ports, on which games are connecting, so those ports may be well open).

I made some changes in advanced options, set the outgoing port to the opened ones, the outgoing ip address to the gateway and external ip, but no luck there. Encripted connections don't work on http ports (80, 8080), nor on 443 etc.

So any ideas what should I tell/ask the network administrator? thanks in advance.

[Switeck]

Use/try one of your game ports.

µTorrent needs ONLY 1 incoming port, but for outgoing it needs the whole range of ephemeral ports by default (roughly ports 1000-5000) to work correctly!

µTorrent can be bound to a single outgoing port as well, but there may be issues with doing that...I've never tried it myself, just what I've heard!

[Lord Alderaan]

Disable UPnP and NAT-PMP in the settings. Your network router/firewalls don't support them.

Are you sure your network admin mapped/forwarded a incoming port to your machine? Maybe he just allowed outbound traffic on the ports you requested. Which means you should bind the outbound port to one of the ports you requested and you won't be connectible.