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Old August 27th, 2008
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Originally Posted by shinjii View Post
I have a Linksys router with UPnP enabled and various other p2p clients work fine. I have set it in the router to manually fwd the port to this machine, but no matter what i do it keeps saying trying to connect and has the FW icon.

Im using FreeBSD .. any further suggestions ?
Which Linksys router are you using? If it's any of those with 54 in the model number such as wrt54g then it has buggy firmware & needs to be port forwarded to work more efficiently. It's UPnP will not work reliably.
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