Port Forwarding vs. UPNP - A Bricks Wall question
 

Hello to the Big Gnutella Community and this subgroup dedicated to LW users.
Before publishing this Thread, I tried googling and searching among the posts and the Sticky suggestions.
Anyway I apologize in advance if the answer to my question, is something easy to achieve even for a Koala browsing this forum :Smilywais:.

Of course I didn't check the solution proposed here, yet (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html).

This because my copy of Free LW (the 4.18.8 and Java 1.6.0_07) works.
In the sense that it connects and, reading the display bars, it works properly (a very strong connection is reported) both through UPNP that Using NAT and Port Forwarding (Virtual Server).

Despite of this, with Port Forwarding the bricks wall stand in front of the world Icon and LW detects a firewall even if I configured all properly.

I started peering years ago with mIRC scripts (Glorious SDSailor/Omen ones on Undernet) and on the same domestic network (on other machines of my 7 PCs small LAN managed by a USR 9108a Wireless ADSL 2+ Router, with UPNP activated awa port forwarding both for TCP and UDP on the ports reported on LW-Tools-Options-Advanced-Firewall) a copy of Emule gets an High ID and everything's is right.

So, I know that someone could say "Why you decide to bother the forum if your UPNP works?". But I can't help it.

I must find a reason for it, otherwise I can't sleep (thanks to this very common nevrosis I learned the ICT Job that helpes me to procure everyday food for me and my dog).


I tried to:

• Reboot many times LW
• Reboot the machines
• Exclude the Onecare Firewall (I know this software very well and I have a lot of exceptions perfectly working)
• Change the port number on LW, Onecare and Router.
• Rebooting the Router (anyway I open ports everyday for my ICT Job and I know this router and its beahvior very well and there's no need to reboot it after adding exceptions)

It seems like that LW Manual Port Forward Option automatically turns on the "Bricks Wall on the World" Icon.
Despite of the networking conf. you setup behind.
Is this possible?


About the remaining configuration info, I can say that LW runs on:

• Vista Business SP1 - ITA
• AMD Athlon XP 2600
• Nvidia Motherboard
• I GB RAM
• Nvidia Ethernet Controller
• Static LAN IP (Port Forwarding needs it)
• Router USR 9108a with Updated Firmware
• Italian Telecom as a Service Provider
• ADSL 2000/256

Any suggestion is welcome and is better than 25 Lormetazepam drops :D

All the Best

Stefania Castelli

Welcome to the Gnutella Forums Stefania :)

Could it possibly be your ISP???

Answer and Integrations
 

Hello.
I can't totally exclude it, of course.
But if UPNP works, Emule works and I tired several ports on LW, I would exclude it.

I feel that is probably a TCP/UDP issue, anyway.

In the past I had problem on Port forwarding that includes both the protocols on the same ports.

So, if I find detailed info on which of the 2 LW ports is dedicated to UDP packets transfer, I could check a more precise config of the HW Router awa the SW Firewall.

I thank you so much for replying because I noticed another strange behavior of LW.

I tried to move the saved folder from the default Documents/Limewire/Saved one, to another disk on the same machine.

I have to force it because after I push the confirmation button on the config window, the path to the saved folder doesn't change.

So I have to copy and paste the path to make it work.

It works properly until I shut down LW.
When I launch it again, an error window appears teling me that the selected storage resource is unreachable for various reasons etc.... (the meaning is this but the words are different).

Of course I tried to give "everyone" full control on that unit and, as I told you, it works if I force the config. on the fly.

Is it a wished, known LW behavior?

Many thanks for any suggestion you wish to provide

Stefania

Hi Stef, You can try this.

You'll need to Point LW to the Path of your shared/saved folder. Mine for instance is L:\Shared.
Go to Tools > Options > Saving. Now, type in the path where it says... "Choose Folder for Saving Files"

Hope this is what you're refering to. :)

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...57/609x499.jpg

I have been having trouble with Limewire since yesterday. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, and I still get that it will not connect. This is very frustrating and time consuming. I s this something new that Limewire and Gnutella has come up with to torment people with?? Sometimes I have trouble even going to my security settings, I have also done disc cleanup, last night that made it work, today it does not.. Is annyone else having this problem?