SuSE on router/firewall:If you use SuSE Linux on your router/firewall to connect to the internet you can do the following to forward the ports used by e/amule to your client: You need to set your firewall to forward all connections coming to it on ports 4662 and 4672 in tcp and udp to your internal client machine.
Open /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2, and locate FW_FORWARD_MASQ (it's in 14.). Now, assuming your client's ip is 192.168.0.3, set this to this value:
FW_FORWARD_MASQ="0/0,192.168.0.3,tcp,4662 0/0,192.168.0.3,udp,4662 0/0,192.168.0.3,tcp,4672 0/0,192.168.0.3,udp,4672"
(Note that a rule like "0/0,192.168.0.3,tcp,4662" simply means that incoming tcp connections over port 4662 from any address (0/0) will be forwarded to your the machine 192.168.0.3, on the same port.)
For this to work, you have to have FW_ROUTE (5.) set to "yes" in the same file.
After making these changes, save the file (
) and then start yast. Go to "Security and users" (or similar), and there choose "Firewall". Now simply go through all dialogs and finish them; at the end it will restart your firewall with these new rules.
Watch out; depending on your config you can lock yourself out of your (remote) machine!
To restart the firewall you can *probably* also do
# /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 stop; /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 start
SuSE on client machine:If you run SuSE on your client machine which runs a firewall itself, you need to do the following to allow the correct ports to come through: You basically need to allow tcp and udp ports 4662 and 4672 to be open.
Open /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2, and locate FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP and FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP. Now add to both of these the above ports:
FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="4662 4672"
FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="4662 4672"
Note that you should keep ports that are already in there.
After making these changes, you can restart the SuSEfirewall2 by doing:
# /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 stop; /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 start
(thanks g-maverick)
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All this works in SuSE 8.2, I don't know about other versions (especially non-8.x). Please correct me about anything you might find wrong/missing, I will change/add it.
