I would like to be able to fully participate in Torrents for downloading ISO, such as the Gentoo ISOs. However, since my gentoo/iptables firewall currently is not forwarding any ports to my client systems, so I appear as a torrent leech - I'd like to try to change that.
I'm using kTorrent under Gentoo/KDE, which supports interfacing via UPNP to enable specific forwarding, which I would like to try to take advantage of for security reasons. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_UPnP_with_IPTables I noticed the URL above on how to do UPNP via linux-igd, but I'm not sure that's what I want. I searched emerge for UPNP and saw a number of packages in the list. I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience (good/bad/otherwise) on setting up a Gentoo-based ipTables Firewall for UPNP, or what packages people might recommend for it. While I am mostly concerned with having kTorrent work on my Gentoo Desktop, I might also be interested in using BitTorrent on a Win2k Laptop too - I don't know if it supports UPnP or not (possible), but if it was easy to support, I might be inclined to. (If not, no big loss.) So I'd welcome thoughts on that as well towards the above questions. TIA, Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
