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(setup userpage with some info on firewall and bittorrent on the router itself)
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Revision as of 23:19, 21 January 2011
Random encounters with DD-WRT v24-sp2 mega/big r14929
Here are some notes, about issue, where I consider the solution to be a bit hackish and not ready for consumption by everyone. So be aware that you should know what you're doing. FYI I'm running this on an Asus RT-N16.
Running bittorrent on the router
I'm running bittorrent directly on the router with screen + rtorrent (and libs) picked from OpenWRTs Kamikaze release. Unfortunately DD-WRTs build-in default firewall setup blocks the incoming traffic (INPUT table) in the port range 6881-6999. I consider it to be save to allow incoming traffic in that port range and would be more concerned about security issue with the torrent client and libs. So I've added two rules very much at the top of the INPUT table to allow UDP and TCP traffic on those ports comming in on the ppp0 device:
# Allow bittorrent peers iptables -I INPUT 2 -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT 3 -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT