> ok heres my current script, yes its inefficient, but thats > not the major problem.. 4662 port :/ I relise that theres > more ports available for edonkey to use, but opening ONE port > would be a start. > > i added "iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state > RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT" without anything happening... > <snip> > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth1 -p udp --dport 4665 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -p udp --dport 4665 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -p udp --sport 4665 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth1 -p udp --sport 4665 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth1 -p tcp --sport 4665 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 4665 -j ACCEPT > Okay, let's leave these rules alone for a moment. *IS* your eDonkey server running/listening. If you do a netstat -an *on the machine that's supposed to be running eDonkey* (you don't need netcat to do this) then it must report one (or more) ports belonging to eDonkey as listening . If not, you can try whatever you want but it won't work ; you will never connect, not even local. Forwarding is not going to help you then and AFAIK you can't test if forwarding is working (which doesn't say it's impossible ; I just don't know how). Besides, going back to the ruleset, I don't see an "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward". You may have setup the rules correctly but it's not going to forward anything untill you did the above "echo". Rob
