Utorrent and client ICS

[John Jay Smith]

I have 2 xp machines and I am running uTorrent on the client ICS.
The Server ICS is connected directly to the internet (without router).
All Firewalls are ok.
I have enabled UPnP Device detection on the XP ICS server machine...

I have also gone into the XP firewall > advanced> settings> services and
added
uTorrent MANUALLY so that uTorrent can be portforwarded through the ICS
server to the internet.

I want to ask this question:

uTorrent has the ability to use UPnP, shouldnt this configuration happen
automatically,
instead of me having to go and add the ports manually in the
XP firewall > advanced> settings> services ???
If not is there any way I CAN make it happen automatically?

Just like a UPnP router opens its ports when a UPnP application asks,
shouldnt the XP ICS that is a software router behave similarly?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

For uTorent to work at full speed, you need to forward an INBOUND port to
the torrent machine. It doesn't matter which port as long as it's an unused
one - there is a setting in uTorrent to determine which port, and this must
match the one forwarded.

Now for the tricky bit - I don't *think* ICS provides inbound
port-forwarding.

You could however get round this by putting a portmapper on the ICS machine.
You can get one from http://www.analogx.com With this, just remap the open
port from the ICS machine (source) to the same portnumber on the torrent
machine (destination) - and open this port on the firewall of both.

Download:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pmapper.htm
(this is awell-tested program and very unlikely to cause trouble)

 

[John Jay Smith]

No reason ICS has this built in, I describe the situation in my original
post.
I was doing everything correctly.

I configured it and it worked right away.