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phishfly

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Firewalls - a problem for a noob (cant understand wiki)
« on: May 31, 2005, 06:22:49 PM »
I just recently started to use amule on my mac (i have 10.3.9 installed).   I have read the wiki help about firewalls, and as my icon is yellow and i am not connecting to any sources.  I am terribly sorry to ask people of this, but I really do not understand what that help article is talking about.  If someone could tell me how to disable my firewall or set it up so that i can download files-it would be much appriciated.  I am sorry I had to ask this stupid question, but I really am new to amule.  I have a homewifi if that helps AT ALL lol.  I also know that i have a netgear ADSL gateway-and i have no idea what that means.

Anyway-thanks so much-i can't wait to get started using edk2 network!
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Re: Firewalls - a problem for a noob (cant understand wiki)
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2005, 06:47:33 PM »
ok maybe
1st you can read this thread
http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=6361

this is about firewall ands mac os :) you dont need all infos but most of this should be helpfull
so maybe you can get some usefull information out of it ;)

2nd
read the manual of your netgear adsl modem. there should be a section on hwoto setup a server(most often they do this with webservers as example) in the handbook.
read that part and apply it to the 3ports amule needs, 4662/tcp, 4665/udp  and 4672/udp,

hope that helps
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Re: Firewalls - a problem for a noob (cant understand wiki)
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2005, 02:23:48 AM »
okay i read my manual and it helped a bit-but it just talked about how to allow sertain things and all general stuff.   I just want to be able to download stuff.  I don't care about the risk now-ive been trying to figure this out for the past 6 hrs.  I just want someone to tell me exactly what and how to set the preferences on my DG824M Wireless ADSL Modem Gateway.  Like what exact services i should set etc.  I really don't know what im doing wrong.

I guess i have been confusing myself with portforward.com

This is what i did that is not working for amule:  I set my ip to out of range, and my range did not have the default ports.  Then I set a service with tcp/dcd(orwhatever) and put in the same ports i ahd in amule.  THIS IS KILLING ME!  plz help

thanks so much tho-the manual... it did help a bit.
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Re: Firewalls - a problem for a noob (cant understand wiki)
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2005, 08:23:52 AM »
google is your friend :))
read that howto ->
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2003/q2/netgear-dg824m.asp

they explain in detail how to setup portforwarding for your DG824M box

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