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[andrew_jorgensen]

Got it.

Marking time at 12:33 am.

Also, one seed and 185 leeches on the torrent of tonight's Battlestar Galactica. It is, I suppose, unlikely that I'll finish reading the novel before I'm done downloading the show.

(Update: BSG finished in 4 hours, 36 minutes. After 5:48 I'm on page 460.)

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[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I typed "homeportal" into th ecomputer and it's showing me info about my modem, the broadband link, the home network, the firewall.

I asked for firewall info. It's showing me the settings, but I'm not sure how to interpret them.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

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.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Isn't the DMZplus mode the mode that lets *anything* through!?

Yikes.

Thanks for the link.

I have a BitTorrent client for the Mac that's just called "BitTorrent".

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I thought Macintosh users laughed in the face of spyware.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe I've been protected from it all this time by this nifty firewall and didn't know it. Someone could have built an Ev0l Mac Bristow!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

This site (http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm) has pretty much everything you'd need, both instructions for every router known to humankind, and a listing of the requisite ports for each BitTorrent client.