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Firewalling for the Comodo Firewall






 

Before we can open ports for BitTorrent, we should set the ports that BitTorrent uses. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up BitTorrent.



In the menu at the top of your screen, click the View link. Then in the list of options that drops down click the Settings option.



A new window should have poped up that looks like the picture above. There are a few tabs at the top of this window, click the Network tab.



The number in the starting at port box tells BitTorrent where you start looking for open ports. BitTorrent works it's way up from that port number until it finds a port that is open. Every port that BitTorrent has to check takes time. So it would be a good idea to open the port that you enter into the Starting at Port box. Many ISPs block ports in the 6000 range. Please choose a port between 10000 and 60000 then enter it into the Starting at Port box. Then enter that port into the box below.

BitTorrent's Port for incoming connections

If you plan on downloading multiple files at the same time via BitTorrent, you need to open up one port for each file. This guide will show you how to open up one port for each file. If you chose to put port 12540 into the Starting at Port box and wanted to have five files going at the same time, you should open ports 12540 to 12544.

Open up the BitTorrent program.You may see a security alert window that looks like the following image.


If you do, then click the Remember my answer for this application checkbox to put a check in it. Then click the Allow button.Now let's open up the Comodo Firewall so we can check the settings in it.


Click the Security button near the top of the page.




Click the Application Monitor button near the left of the page.




You should see BitTorrent in the Application Control Rules table. The protocol row of the BitTorrent should be set to TCP/UDP Out. If it is not set to that click BitTorrent and then click the Edit button.


In the general section set the Action drop down to Allow. Then set the Protocol drop down to TCP or UDP. Set the Direction drop down to Out. Then click the Ok button to save those settings. Then on the left hand side of the Comodo Firewall window click the Network Monitor option.


We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to setup Comodo Firewall's firewall for BitTorrent. Go ahead and enter the settings shown below into the Network Control Rule menu.

Click the Add link close to the top of this window. Almost all the settings on the tabs on this page will remain the same. The only one you will need to change is the Destination Port tab. So click that tab now.
  Exclude (i.e. Not the choice below.)  
  Any Ports:  
  A single port  
  A port range  
  A set of ports (comma seperated e.g. 80,443)  
Click the Ok button to save those changes. Once you have created the new rule, be sure to right click that rule and move up above all of the block rules.