Draytek Vigor 2900 & Azereus

SachaJ

Hi All,

Having wicked trouble configuring my Draytek 2900 port forwarding for Azereus.

I've never seen the green faces in Azereus, just yellow or red.

I'm also getting the red Firewalled and yellow DHT Firewalled ball thingies down the bottom of the screen.

Tried port forwarding, but no joy. Tried this site

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Draytek/Vigor2600WE/Azureus.htm

On the 3 meg (soon to be 10meg) NTL broadband but getting 1k a sec.

Any ideas?

SeanW

I had similar trouble with a ZyXEL Prestige router (BT ADSL). In my case I had been trying to run a game server from behind a router and port forwarding didn't work.

when the advice of portforwarding.com doesn't do the trick, something else is going on.

I ended up putting the router in Bridge mode and giving my computer a direct connection, and logging on to the service manually, directly from Windows.

Look around your routers configuration and see if there's a modem, bridge mode operation option somewhere. In my case it was in WAN settings.

If you succed in doing that, be careful because your computer will be configured as part of the Internet opening it up to hacks and port scans and whatnot. So you'll need to use a software firewall to block that.

8T8

If your router supports it enable UPnP then go into Azureus and make sure UPnP is enabled under the options->plugins->UPnP section.

If you want to do it manually this is what I suggest;

Under Options->Connections change your port number to something else e.g. 31609

Click save

Under Options->Plugins->Distributed DB change the UDP port for the database to something else e.g. 41283

Click save

Go into your router config and make a note of your current IP address and set the following up on your IP:
TCP & UDP for port 31609 (start & end are the same port)
UDP port 41283 (start & end are the same port)

If your have more than one device on your network with DHCP server running handing out IP address you may run into a situation whereby you no longer have the IP temporarily at least that is assigned to those ports.

If none of the above works for you then I cant think of anything else.

SachaJ

tried the upnp thing but looks like it made it work.

I'm using port 65000 and set the Open Ports for both TCP & UDP.

When I set off upnp, it said that port 65000 already established.

At the minute I have say 6 torrents downloading, a couple are at 0k, one at 20k, one at 3k etc, but all yellow faces still.

When I try this http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=65000 port tester, it's still telling me that the port is closed

Cheers for yer help so far

8T8

UTorrent's tester only works if you have manually opened the port.

If I were you I would start fresh again and change the port numbers you are using in Azureus & UTorrent.

Then go into the router and remove any ports you opened in relation to either of those programs.

Make sure UPnP is still enabled then enable UPnP for both Utorrent and Azureus, you could run into possible conflicts by having the ports opened in the NAT with UPnP enabled which is why I suggested you remove them as UPnP maps those ports to the NAT.

Also Bittorrent is a very stressful application on the network subsystem I would scale back the number of active torrents you are downloading to just one at a time (definately not 6 at once), the more upload speed you dedicate to that one torrent the faster it will download (seeders permitting of course).

BTW you have enabled Azureus/UTorrent with the Windows Firewall or whatever third party one your running with...