Link: HowTo Ants behind a router

[kollega]

Hi,
if you're behind a router and want to get rid of the red "Your firewall is up or you're behind a NAT! Please check it!"-message.
You might want to take a look at this HowTo (German board, but the HowTo is in English): http://board.planetpeer.de/viewtopic.php?t=475

It worked for me...

CU
kollega

[ezzye]

Brilliant kollega, at last some useful advice about ANts.

The only thing I would add is that very often you can connect to ANts network when the red firewall message is showing. It just might take slighly longer to connect to the network the first time. After that ANts remembers previous IP addresses connected to.

Also, once connected to the network having the red message does not affect the operation of ANts (uploading, downloading or searching) at all.

See ANts tutorial on the "help" tab in ANts client for more information.

Lastly, remember ANts is beta and is at the testing stage so do not expect too much from network.

[tsafa1]

1. make sure you have right ip address in the settings panel. not that 169.... one, the other one.
2. if you are behind a firewall open port 4567 and 4568. ants use two port numbers. n and n+1
3. wait... if you get peer connections you are fine. the message will probably stay up. you can reprobe by right-clicking on any user in the IRC chanell and clicking "probe firewall"
4. you have to wait to get peer connections before you can search. you do searches in the querry panel. Download files with sources. if a files says zerosources it does not necesarily mean it is not available. The bandwith of that user may be tied up at the moment. Look atthe time stamp. if it was recently on line click on it and download may start soon.

[Abyss00]

Yeah, if you IP is listed as:

10.xx.xxx.xxx
11.xxx.xxx.xxx
127.xxx.xxx.xxx
172.16-32.xxx.xxx
192.168.xxx.xxx

then you are using your internal IP.

You can get your external IP here: http://checkip.dyndns.org/

[tsafa1]

the link to peerplanet is dead

[infringer]

quite ez fwd ports 4567 and 4568 and then specify the modems IP ...

Nothing to difficult about it.

-infringer-

[CactusChris]

Ezzye (who can't defend her statement at the moment) said"Also, once connected to the network having the red message does not affect the operation of ANts (uploading, downloading or searching) at all."
Now that is what i've heard - however, with no numbers to back it up i do fell that downloading/uploading are faster and more bytes transferred when the message is blus (firewall is correctly set) rather than red (it is not).
Just a feeling?
Ragards
Chris