eMule and iptables

I am looking for iptables firewall rules for eMule, which accepts all
connections and forwards, but I can find anything useful on the net.
There are lots of discussions on usenet about rules but I'd rather
have a set of rules which will work right away than trying out all
suggestions in the discussion threads.

I have a Linux router which runs RH 7.3 with two network cards of
which eth0 (with IP 10.0.0.1) is connected to an Alcatel/Thompson ADSL
modem (with IP 10.0.0.138). The other network card eth1 (IP
192.168.1.10) is connected to a switching hub and connected to that is
a PC which runs eMule (IP 192.168.1.60).

Maybe someone has a similar setup and can give me a copy of their
rc.firewall or rc.local with all the rules necessary to allow all
e-mule connections through.

Thank you,

Martijn Janssen

Martijn wrote:

> I am looking for iptables firewall rules for eMule, which accepts all
> connections and forwards, but I can find anything useful on the net.
> There are lots of discussions on usenet about rules but I'd rather
> have a set of rules which will work right away than trying out all
> suggestions in the discussion threads.
>
> I have a Linux router which runs RH 7.3 with two network cards of
> which eth0 (with IP 10.0.0.1) is connected to an Alcatel/Thompson ADSL
> modem (with IP 10.0.0.138). The other network card eth1 (IP
> 192.168.1.10) is connected to a switching hub and connected to that is
> a PC which runs eMule (IP 192.168.1.60).
>
> Maybe someone has a similar setup and can give me a copy of their
> rc.firewall or rc.local with all the rules necessary to allow all
> e-mule connections through.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Martijn Janssen

1) Find what ports eMule uses.
2) Open those to all incoming connections (if you're using stateful, then
it's state "new", or else include -syn to denote SYN packets).
3) P2P sharing of copyrighted materials is against the law and is evil.

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NeoSadist wrote:
> Martijn wrote:

>> I am looking for iptables firewall rules for eMule, which accepts all
>> connections and forwards, but I can find anything useful on the net.
>> There are lots of discussions on usenet about rules but I'd rather
>> have a set of rules which will work right away than trying out all
>> suggestions in the discussion threads.

[snip]

> 1) Find what ports eMule uses.

There's a couple of ways to do this. One would be to turn off the firewall
for a few minutes, run eMule and a packet sniffer, and see what ports get
used. It'd probably be a good idea to do it twice, so you can see which
ports (if any) are dynamically assigned.

Ideally, you ought to be able to dig up the docs for eMule and find out from
them; unfortunately, ports used aren't always well-documented.

> 2) Open those to all incoming connections (if you're using stateful, then
> it's state "new", or else include -syn to denote SYN packets).

> 3) P2P sharing of copyrighted materials is against the law and is evil.

Well, actually, it's neither.

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Travis Casey wrote:

>> 3) P2P sharing of copyrighted materials is against the law and is evil.
>
> Well, actually, it's neither.

As in sharing copyrighted materials P2P without the license to do so. I'm
not going to argue this over usenet because it's already been decided.

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NeoSadist wrote:
> Travis Casey wrote:

>>> 3) P2P sharing of copyrighted materials is against the law and is evil.
>>
>> Well, actually, it's neither.
>
> As in sharing copyrighted materials P2P without the license to do so. I'm
> not going to argue this over usenet because it's already been decided.

You didn't say anything about lacking a license. In any case, though, what
you need to share copyrighted files is permission; a license is one way to
obtain that, but not the only one. Whether it's evil, however, is a moral
question, and depends on the moral system in use.

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:00:30 +0000, Travis Casey wrote:

> You didn't say anything about lacking a license. In any case, though, what
> you need to share copyrighted files is permission; a license is one way to
> obtain that, but not the only one. Whether it's evil, however, is a moral
> question, and depends on the moral system in use.

I share Linux ISO's with MLDonkey does that make me evil?

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On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:41:10 -0600, NeoSadist wrote:

> 1) Find what ports eMule uses.

4662 TCP
4672 UDP

You should be able to change these ports in your client though.

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Geoffrey King wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:00:30 +0000, Travis Casey wrote:
>
>> You didn't say anything about lacking a license. In any case, though,
>> what you need to share copyrighted files is permission; a license is one
>> way to
>> obtain that, but not the only one. Whether it's evil, however, is a
>> moral question, and depends on the moral system in use.
>
> I share Linux ISO's with MLDonkey does that make me evil?

No, but it makes you look stupid because we're talking about something else.
Even then, BitTorrent works better and faster, and is more trustworthy when
coming from the home page of the Linux ISO maker. You must also realize
that P2P has a bad history of people sending each other infected files, so
don't think ISOs are immune to infection, or loss of data integrity as
well.
But anyways, we were talking about something totally different.

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