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Re: If I turn my router off and on, do I need to re-forward my ports?
My guess is that you are using DHCP to assign your internal IP addresses. When the router is rebooted it reassigns the internal addresses in a different order than you initially had them set up. So if you had your forwading set up like this:
computer IP Port
1 192.168.0.1 33600
2 192.168.0.2 43600
A reeboot might leave you with the same settings but the computers switched. So your client tries to connect on the same port it always does but finds itself firewalled by the router (That port is forwarded to the other computer now.)
The easiest way to fix this is to turn off DHCP in the router and set static IP addresses for your computers. This way yor forward table and your bittorent client will always be in synch.
I have no idea why you would not show up as firewalled at dime if this happened though.
I hope this helps. If you need any help setting static IP addresses let me know.
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