Port Forwarding

[thebluemonkey]

I'm currently trying to forward ports 6881-6889 to my laptop so bittorrent will hopefully run a bit quicker.

Currently I have ;

Asus ADSL modem -------> Airport Extreme ----------> Powerbook
i.p. 198.162.1.1 ------------>10.0.1.1 ----------------->10.0.1.201

The Powerbook is connected with a fixed IP to the router, and the router is forwarding the 6881-6889 to the powerbook ( or so the settings say ).
The ADSL modem is forwarding ports 6881-6889 through to 10.0.1.201.
The firewall in OS X is off.
When I go to Shields Up ( @ www.grc.com ) and probe that range I get a report that they are all stealthed. I've been told for maximum performance that these should all be reported as open. I'm sure that it's something simple but I don't have even a glimmer of knowledge about networking.

[aldi]

BitTorrent will need to be running at the time for the ports to show up as open, might be worth starting a d/l checking it again.

[agent006]

Not related to your ports problem, but i'm intrigued as to how you're communicating with a router on a different subnet to your PC and WLAN.

[xiphias]

Sounds like you've set it up right, maybe your ISP blokes those ports? It's recommended to set the ports differently as ISPS are restricting traffic more and more heavily now...

[thebluemonkey]

agent006 said:

Not related to your ports problem, but i'm intrigued as to how you're communicating with a router on a different subnet to your PC and WLAN.

I thought that might've been the problem but obviously not. The airport router has a field where you input the ip address of the modem connected to the WAN port and away you go.

[ATG]

agent006 said:

Not related to your ports problem, but i'm intrigued as to how you're communicating with a router on a different subnet to your PC and WLAN.

The Airport Extreme must be a router

[chriswright]

Could be the ISP restricting the ports, try telling your torrent client to use ports above 10000

[aldi]

ATG said:

agent006 said:

Not related to your ports problem, but i'm intrigued as to how you're communicating with a router on a different subnet to your PC and WLAN.

The Airport Extreme must be a router

So has the airport got 2 ip's?

[agent006]

ATG said:

agent006 said:

Not related to your ports problem, but i'm intrigued as to how you're communicating with a router on a different subnet to your PC and WLAN.

The Airport Extreme must be a router

Course it is, would help if i'd read the post properly.

[thebluemonkey]

chriswright said:

Could be the ISP restricting the ports, try telling your torrent client to use ports above 10000

Think that must've been it. Thanks, and thanks for everyone elses suggestions. Much appreciated.

[bigdods]

when it says stealthed in means you are using NAT this address range --> 198.162.1.1 is a private range and therefore automatically stealthy as it cant propogate onto the internet

[malman]

Stealthed just means the port didn't reply with anything at all not even go away i'm closed. If you port forward and have a listening service on the 192.168.x.x it would show as open