Hey all! I'm a new user of qBT. I just switched over from uTorrent because I'm a pretty paranoid person and got sick of uTorrent's closed source and ads and such.
Anyway, I have a question about firewalling. First, let me briefly explain my setup:
I have a FreeBSD system running the PF firewall, which does the port forwarding and the NAT for my LAN clients. qBT is running on my windows machine inside the LAN.
I'm a bit of a paranoid person, so I have a default deny on my firewall. I've been trying to get qBT working to connect to the trackers and to the peers as well, but I seem to have some issues. Based on my pf logging, it seems that qBT is using randomly-selected ports to initiate outgoing connections to peers.
Here's a snipit of the ports it seems to use:
IP 10.0.0.2.58323 > 95.x.x.x.64293
IP 10.0.0.2.58324 > 72.x.x.x.60124
IP 10.0.0.2.58319 > 50.x.x.x.49052
IP 10.0.0.2.58318 > 178.x.x.x.64463
IP 10.0.0.2.58321 > 69.x.x.x.22993
IP 10.0.0.2.58322 > 99.x.x.x.53027
IP 10.0.0.2.58317 > 178.x.x.x.52070
IP 10.0.0.2.58320 > 173.x.x.x.32544
It seems to be the 583xx range of ports. This random/sequential usage of outgoing ports really messes with my firewall rules. Is there a way to bind qBT to a specific range of ports to always use? Or do I have to just open up my firewall for all outgoing ports from 10.0.0.2?
Thank you!