What I did, and I'm not sure this made any difference, was click on "Firewall Settings," then switch from "Maximum protection" to "Allow individual application(s)." I then added a "new user-defined application," which I named Azureus, though you don't use Azureus as your BitTorrent client. I then assigned it ports 6881-6891, which are the ports through which Azureus receives data requests on Wintel machines.
Since you're on a Mac, though, and since Macs are the wonderfully invulnerable machines unsullied by the evils of malware that they are, try running your router in DMZplus mode the next time you're downloading a torrent.
This page (http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/PortForwarding) contains information on configuring the Mac OS X built-in firewall for use with BitTorrent, though I don't know if it's valid for all BitTorrent clients or just Azureus.
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Date: 2005-07-17 03:20 am (UTC)Since you're on a Mac, though, and since Macs are the wonderfully invulnerable machines unsullied by the evils of malware that they are, try running your router in DMZplus mode the next time you're downloading a torrent.
This page (http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/PortForwarding) contains information on configuring the Mac OS X built-in firewall for use with BitTorrent, though I don't know if it's valid for all BitTorrent clients or just Azureus.