port mapping help
 

I read your article and decided to try
Sygate. Please
help me. The
reason I am
buying an internet sharing software is to
be able to
use the internet
in two
locations, myself who is the server and my
daughter
who
will be the client. We never use the net
together
considering the bandwidth reduction with
simultaneous
usage. My daughter and I have some p2p
file sharing
applications in our pc and we love sharing
music in
the net.

I was wondering if I still have to map the
tcp/ip port
for my
client pc even though the net is only used
by one pc
at a
time.

Does the sygate software have a firewall?
Please give
me
detailed instructions on how to map the
tcp/ip ports
say on
gnutella, napster or winmx.

Assuming that only one pc will be used at
any given
time,
how should I configure the 2 computers? As
per the
documentation in the sygate site, the
instructions are
to download the
access
rules. It looks like the access rules for
say
gnutella is not
available. I downloaded the file
gnutella.cfg. but I do not understand how
to set this
up. Do
I have to set this up in the server pc or
client pc.
and how
do I do this? Please help me understand how
to add, or
import or export? inorder that file
sharing will work
or so
that some ports could be opened.

Let me please site an example. In the
Winmx
application,
there are questions I have answer. This is
how the
set up
page looks like and I have to select one
with sygate
installed
on both computers.
Winmx is installed on both computers and
these
questions
have to be answered on both. Could you
please advise
me
how to answer them on BOTH COMPUTERS
(server and
client) I have to tick the circle whichever
is the
correct
choice.

Question 1 Outgoing connection
O connect directly
O use socks 4 proxy (1080)
O use socks 5 proxy (1080)
Question 2 Incoming TCP Connection and UDP
Packets
O Listen on port 6699 for incoming TCP
connection
Listen on port 6257 for incoming USP
connection
(Important: If you are behind a
firewall or
access the
internet through a LAN, you must map
these
incoming
ports through your firewall or router

O Unable to accept incoming connections
("PORT 0" in
other
file sharing applications) Choose this
option if you
are behind
a firewall, access the internet through a
LAN and are
unable
to map an incoming TCP/IP port. Using this
option
will limit
the number of users you can download from
upload to

Question 3 Host name resolution
O Use Local OS to resolve names
O Use DNS server at _______ port 53
O Push host names through socks5 proxy

Please advise me how to answer these
questions from
BOTH
SERVER AND CLIENT PC

On some p2p applications, I get error
messages such as
"Could no bind UDP socket" or "Could not
open TCP/IP
port
for listening" or "Winmx is now in
firewalled mode"
What I
do to avoid this is to reinstall the
software and its
fixed but I
am just wondering why I get these messages
sometimes.

The name i gave my server pc is "SERVER"
and name of
my client pc is "CLIENT"
I assigned internal IP 192.168.0.1 to
server and
192.168.0.2
to client. DNS is disable in server and
enabled in
client. The
IP address of my cable ISP provider is
203.194.162.120

I am attaching here the ip configuration of
both
machines, in
files called server.doc and client.doc. for
your
information.
This will supply all the ip addresses for
your
perusal.

Should I install the free sygate
firewall? Is this
necessary? Please
advise me if I have to do this and if ever
I do, how
do I open ports to allow file sharing. I
am so
confused on
where or what machine (server or client) to
do any
port
mapping. And if only one machine is used,
is there a
need for
it.

At the moment, I have difficulty getting a
connection
and
downloading from client pc and from the
server, very
slow.
The bandwidth on the client pc is 0.00
Mbps. If ever I
get a
connection and the file starts to download,
the
connection
drops out completely.

The cfg, file on apprules was opened with
notepad.
What do
I do with the information? Also when I
installed
sygate, the
apprules were not installed in my sygate
directory.
The
apprules in your web site says that they
are only for
version
3.0 but the version I downloaded is version
4.0 What
do I
do on how to get these apprules.

The only applications I will be using are
the
following:
1)Gnutella, Bearshare, Grokster etc.
Listening port is
6669
2) Napster - Listening port is 8888
3) ICQ2000 Listening port is 20000-20019
4) Winmx
5) FTP
6) MIRC
7) Limewire, Gnucleus - Listening port
6346
8) Aimstar - Listening port 7668
9) Bearshare - Listening port 6669

I would also want to share files in MIRC
and I was
told this could only
be done with DCC? How do I initiate DCC in
MIRC from
both computers?

Should I use the socks4 or 5 with 1080 port
on both
computers?

Some informtion on my system:
SERVER COMPUTER
Network Address Netmask Gateway
Address
Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
203.194.162.1
203.194.162.120 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1 1
192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 1
203.194.162.0 255.255.255.128
203.194.162.120
203.194.162.120 1
203.194.162.120 255.255.255.255
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 1
203.194.162.255 255.255.255.255
203.194.162.120
203.194.162.120 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1
1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0
203.194.162.120
203.194.162.120 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255
192.168.0.1
0.0.0.0 1

CLIENT COMPUTER
Network Address Netmask Gateway
Address
Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
1
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2 1
192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2
1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2 1

Please be advised that I have changed ip
address and computer name for
security purposes in this email. But using
the above, please
advise...
Please help me..thanks