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Title: port 4662 is not available LOWID.
Post by: arriok on February 16, 2004, 10:11:00 AM

Hello guys :)

Frenchie boy hailing you !

I have some " troubles " with amule, installed 2 days ago.
I have this message when i start amule : port 4662 is not available LOWID.

I know i will be able to download even with this error but not as fast as i would.
I read somewhere i can avoid this touble making some modifications to my firewall. I hope you will be able to tell me what to do ?

I am running DEBIAN WOODY and i made my firewall myself with iptable... if you have any idea to the code i have to type ( opening ports and things like that ... ( noob inside ) )...

Thank you, take care !

arriok from france

Title: Re: port 4662 is not available LOWID.
Post by: keevitaja on February 17, 2004, 07:25:36 PM

iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 4662 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

but this command must be before the DROP one... and

iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --dport 4672 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

couldn't hurt as well. complete script looks something like that:

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iptables --flush
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p UDP --dport 4672 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 4662 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -j DROP
iptables-save
service iptables save
service iptables restart


Title: similar problem on mac os
Post by: cmaunoury on September 02, 2006, 07:10:12 AM

Hey,

I am from France too, I guess it is a french channel :)
I am currently living in the US and using an University network on Mac OS X. I think the network is firewalled or routed because I tested some ports on the amule project website and none worked.

Of course, I can't access the router or firewall status of the university server.
Is it anything I can do not to be on Low ID anymore?

Thank you,

Colin

PS: I don't know nothing about code. I am sorry, I am something of the average user.

Title: Re: port 4662 is not available LOWID.
Post by: vdb on September 02, 2006, 01:19:17 PM

Unfortunately not, when you are behind a firewall or router with closed ports, you're stuck.

Also, as to what Arriok wrote, there are many fake servers out there that will tell you that a port is not reachable where in reality it is. You should try to add one real server, the DonkeyServer no2 comes to mind, the real one on 62.241.53.16:4242 (avoid the fake one !!!) and see what respons you get from this one. Delete all other servers, install a ipfilter.dat and you will most likely get a high ID from there on.