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[spoovy]

Hello all.  I've spent the last few hours trying to figure this out, but I am foxed.  I know very little about networking i'm afraid.

When connecting I keep getting a low-ID warning.  Following instructions on the wiki I have been fiddling with the port forwarding, port triggering and firewall setting on my router.  The following shots show my settings.   Still low-ID though.   Any help gratefully received.

NB when i check my IP address using a website (whatsmyip or something like that) I get 81.141.249.65.   The default one on my router is 192.168.1.2 though, so I don't know why this is different.   I have tried the same port forwarding rules with 192.168.1.2 as well but still low-ID.

[wuischke]

Hi spoovy,

it's great you provided us with so much information!

The ip with 81.141... is your external IP. That means, if another computer from the internet wants to contact you, it will contact this IP. The 192.168... is your internal IP, it is used for the communication between your router and your computer. (And any other computers connected to your router)

In order for a computer from the internet to talk with your local computer, your router has to forward ports to your computer, since only the router can talk to both the internet and your local computer directly.

This means: Please use the 192.168.... address for port forwarding. Do not activate port triggering, since port forwarding will already have opened the ports.

[spoovy]

it's great you provided us with so much information!

No problem,  I quickly learned that if you want help on these matter you need to give some detail!

So anyway thanks for the explanation.  I tried what you suggested however and still low ID..    Any other ideas?


NB I made a mistake earlier the IP on the base of my router is 192.168.0.1
I also checked my iptables settings and got the following -

lukas@peony:~$ sudo iptables -L
[sudo] password for lukas:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        
lukas@peony:~$

[Stu Redman]

You forwarded the ports to your router. You have to forward them to the computer you are running aMule on.

[spoovy]

Sorted.  I checked my IP address using 'Network Tools' in crunchbang linux.  It gave me 192.168.0.2   I tried this and it works!   

Cheers.