hi,

I also installed gnut on my webserver an old 80486 running linux mandrake 7 as entry point for our open source project.

Perhaps one reason for your connection problems is that you forwarded the wrong port: gnut uses 5634 and not 6346 like the other gnutella clients.

Try also the following: install nmap (a good command line port scan) and from another linux outside your local network try the following command:

nmap -p 5634 yourhost.yourdomain.com

if nmap says [filtered] and not [open], you have to check again the router, if perhaps the port is firewalled.
On our router (a Zyxel Prestige) the port was marked open, but in another place of the configuration options it was firewalled.

if I type in
nmap -p localhost I get the following on my computer
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Port State Service
Unable to find nmap-services! Resorting to /etc/services
5634/tcp open unknown

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3 seconds
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Perhaps is this the reason
bye

dangermouse

if you are interested visit the server running gnut at http://algol.homeip.net/
and our open source project (another gnutella client for windows)
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpu