Topic: SME Port forwarding for [censored] stupid monkeys?

[jagdmirage]

'Once upon a time' things were setup, I had a much older version of SME server, and the connection went;
cable modem -> SME server -> Switch -> LAN and all the winboxen were happy and safely shielded from the big nasty evil internet. All was happy and peaceful for a great while.
At one point in time along comes this gloriously juicy file sharing program, BitTorrent, and a multitude of clients were made, for linux and other things.

Now, with the default SME 6.5 install I'm running now (I'm watching my SME 7.0 iso download really slow)...
The various clients inside, on the winboxen (BitLord on my work laptop and graphics workstation, Azeureus on the other 2 machines in the house belonging to my roomies) there is a marked slowness and lack of connection seen.

How would I set up so that I keep DHCP internally so I don't have to monkey with connections, and enable the proper port forwarding to allow bittorrent clients to live happily once more?  

I'm also trying to scrounge up another hard drive and get a fedora box internal, to be accessable via ssh to the outside world so I can monkey with relearning how to do remote linux admin ...
 

[gelcube]

Just use the port forwarding panel in the SME Server Manager to forward whatever ports you have setup in your bittorrent clients to the appropriate machine.  As long as you have the computer on every day, DHCP shouldn't be a problem.  I don't think my main PC's changed IPs...ever.  Or at least, very seldom.  Of course, I usually leave it on all the time.

I've noticed a problem on my own network, though, since I've started torrenting.  I haven't tested it with SME7 yet, but on 6.x, any torrent client running will cripple internet access.  The only way I can surf with bittorrent  running is to severely curtail the maximum bandwidth to no more than 10% of my maximum, and slashing my maximum connections to less than 50.  Running with defaults drops my internet connection faster than you can say "drop".

[jagdmirage]

The only way I can surf with bittorrent  running is to severely curtail the maximum bandwidth to no more than 10% of my maximum, and slashing my maximum connections to less than 50.  Running with defaults drops my internet connection faster than you can say "drop".

I forced a policy on my internal people. 'You only get x amount of upload bandwidth.' Since I take the lion's share I give myself 55KB/sec up, each of them gets 15KB/sec up for my connection. Down dosen't seem to be a problem.

[gelcube]

I forced a policy on my internal people. 'You only get x amount of upload bandwidth.' Since I take the lion's share I give myself 55KB/sec up, each of them gets 15KB/sec up for my connection. Down dosen't seem to be a problem.

Are you running 6.x, or 7?

[Boris]

If you put the WS MAC address to the "host names and addresses" via server-manager, those WS will get reserved (always the same) IP every time through DHCP.