security settings for bittorrent?

[James Jones <jamesjones01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. I've installed bittorrent, and the Linksys BEFSR41 that my computers 
sit behind is forwarding ports 6881-6889 to the computer I am running 
bittorrent on, but the transfer rates still seem awfully slow.
The upload rate is nonzero, which would make me think that the "medium" 
security setting on the RH 9 computer I am using bittorrent on is not 
impeding bittorrent, and that I'm just expecting faster downloads than 
the circumstances of who happens to also be downloading what I want 
really allow.

Is the port forwarding on the Linksys box all I need do, or do I need to 
customize the firewall settings on the RH9 computer? If I do need to 
customize, how do I do that? (The GUI-based utility doesn't show, as far 
as I can tell, a way to let through requiests on a specific range of 
ports by number.)

   James Jones


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