First of all a big thank you for the patience the moderators are showin. (:CLP)
I have read all of the posts in this section and i’ve applied the tutorial at the beginning to the letter. I still cannot resolve my problem:
i use Azureus and i am always on yellow no matter what.
i have done Everything and quadruple checked it all, i rebooted, the router, the pc, the program, i’m just short of making offerings to the gods of the Mysterious Electronics of the Universe.
My guess is that my router may be bogus…its an atlantis… the right ports are open and all.
The one thing that makes me think it could be the router is that after rebooting azu, it tells me that i need to open a specific tcp port…i check on router…guess what? its open.
I dont think you left out any info, read it all and its very very full. Guess i’m hoping for a miracle solution.
If you think your router might be the problem, can you remove it from the equation? In other words, can you connect directly from your computer to a modem or other form of gateway device? If you can and it works then you know it’s the router; if it doesn’t work, then you can safely rule that out…
Another option to check within CFP, is Protocol Analysis. Sometimes this does strange things for some users, so you might try disabling that. Go to Security/Advanced/Advanced Attack Detection/Miscellaneous, uncheck the box next to “Do Protocol Analysis.” OK, and reboot.
hello form portugal
i’m using the last version of comodo firewall, and i can´t configure the firewall to work with emule! i have folow the small touturial in the begin, but i still have low-id!
when i turn on emule apears the warning box with the allow aplication, when i accept the configurations that i´ve made to the firewall disapear!
can someone please help me?
Is there a guide anywhere for Comodo settings for use with uTorrent. I’m on broadband cable going straight through a modem. No router. Too much of a hastle unless I’m wi-fi to guest in the house. I finally had to uninstall comodo because it was clogging up my torrents. I made adjustments with the comodo settings, unchecking everything to see how it would respond, rebooted and still not seeing my torrents take off like they usually do. After uninstalling CF they took off again. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I do enjoy using CF.
Besides the fact that you’re IN the tutorial, here’s a link to a locked compilation of a number of different tutorials/explanations; it’s locked so no replies, just easy-reading. Each topic has embedded links back to the original, where you can ask questions as needed.
A couple things to note, with any p2p application.
You need to disable the UPNP feature of the application. You need to disable the automatic port assignment, and manually assign a specific port for it to use.
That port will be used in both application rule (Inbound, set as Destination Port) and in the Network rules for the Inbound connection (destination Port) as defined in the tutorial.
That’s pretty much all you have to do. There are some other rules you can add to improve logging, but not everyone has the need for those.
How does CFP decide what’s a certified application? Does CFP have a hash for every certified application? Strange that utorrent is certified while Firefox and Thunderbird isn’t. Though I guess you don’t have all new versions in the hash database (if that’s how it works), as new version means new hash.
I don’t get why the program shouldn’t show up on AppMonitor even if a program is certified. If I get it right the certified applications are really added to AppMonitor (how else could they get access to Internet) but they are just hidden from the list. Is there any reason to hiding them?
I have just reinstalled Windows XP SP2 on a new machine and, as I have done in the past, installed and configured Comodo Firewall for emule/bittorrent following the instructions provided in this thread. I have previously done so on two different machines and it has always worked. However, this time I couldn’t pass the tests for open ports at utorrent.com and emule-project.net.
Here’s my configuration:
I’m using 41653 for bittorrent (utorrent) and 4661-4662/4671-4672 for emule.
I’m behind a router (2wire 2700HG) and the ports in question are forwarded to my machine
I created the rules in Comodo following the instructions and moved them over the Block IP rule, which became #10, while the new rules are ##7-8 (emule) and #9 (bittorrent).
My ISP (Telmex) is not blocking any ports.
When I check “Create an alert if this rule is fired,” I get the following entry in the log:
Description: Information (Access Granted, IP = XX.XX.XX.XX, Port = 41653)
Protocol: TCP Incoming
[...]
Reason: Network Control Rule ID = 9
With those ports forwarded in your router, no, your router should not be blocking them. That’s why you’ll get a log entry like that when you’re running the p2p app; they’re passing the router and hitting the firewall, which also allows them, based on the running application listening on those ports. If you don’t have the p2p running, the ports will be closed (provided you don’t have some other application using the same ports…)
The basic process for the certified applications is:
Application is submitted to Comodo (the FW has a “submit files” option (right-click an file in your app mon)).
Comodo reviews application, verifies/tests its validity and safety.
Application is cryptographically signed and added to safelist.
Users’ computers update (provided they have the option active - Security/Advanced/Miscellaneous, towards the bottom).
Or something like that - that’s the basic idea, anyway. You may have to periodically run the application wizard (Security/Tasks/Scan for Known Applications); not sure on that, though.
As to why they don’t show in the appmon; I’m not sure what reasoning may cause that.
Never mind i understand everything accept for the ip address part, do you mean by computer internal or external ip address?
What i mean is i get where to put it all, but it does not solve my problem. I still have a low id :BNC, what can i do? My router is configured to open the ports, i did everything i was told to do in comodo, but i don’t know what i do with eMule under the application monitor field.
Do you have those Network Rules for emule above the bottom Block & Log rule?
Have you set a specific port within emule (rather than let it choose automatically), and turned off UPNP within emule?
Then, in Application Monitor, you may need a separate rule to Allow Inbound, for each protocol (TCP, UDP) with the associated Destination Port.
As far as the IP address, if you want to use an address rather than leaving it as “Any” it will need to be your internal IP address; your router has already forwarded from the external…
The network rules were above, yes i have specific ports in eMule, and well I’m pretty sure the UPNP rule is turned off in eMule, but I can’t seem to find any such rule, where in eMule is it?
Is there any danger in leaving the destination IP as “ANY”, and you mean the internal IP address of my router, right? But how do i find that one?
Well, I don’t use emule, so I don’t know specifically about a UPNP toggle. I searched thru their website, and found only this as a reference to UPNP. eMule-Project.net - Official eMule Homepage. Downloads, Help, Docu, News... It’s not what I’m familiar with p2p applications having (normally there’s an Options/Config/Tools setting somewhere that’s a checkbox or such, to turn it on or off within that application). So that aspect may not be an issue with emule.
No, no danger that I’m aware of, leaving it as Any. Your computer is on the receiving end, so that’s where the connection will go. Now if your computer served as the Host to a shared internet connection, and you didn’t want the traffic going past it, then your internal IP would be used.
If you want to know these details, you can go to Start/Run, and type in “cmd”. At the DOS prompt, type “ipconfig /all”. This will give your Default Gateway (router), DHCP Server (probably also router), DNS Server (possibly router and ISP), your internal IP, and some other info.
If you to know your external IP address, you can go to whatismyip.com. (or look in the bottom right corner of your posts here in the Forums - your IP address is displayed there (Note: no, other general users cannot see it; only you, Admins and Moderators).
There may need to be some ICMP rules added to Network Monitor as well, Headache. Some users have found them to be helpful or needed, in order to get the High ID. A look at your logs (in Comodo) will help clarify that.
Go to Activity/Logs. Right-click and select “Clear all logs.”
Now run emule (or attempt to). When you don’t get the green light/High ID, go back to Activity/Logs.
Right-click and select “Export to HTML.” Save the file.
Reopen the file, Highlight the entries, right-click and Copy. Then right-click and Paste into your next post here. You may edit your external IP address with “x” for privacy (this will match the IP you see in the lower right corner of your posts here in the forum).
We’ll take what’s there and create rules. This will help you get your high ID, and also help you learn to interpret the logs and create rules as needed…
here’s a link to a locked compilation of a number of different tutorials/explanations; it’s locked so no replies, just easy-reading. Each topic has embedded links back to the original, where you can ask questions as needed.