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I've installed Nicotine Plus and have no trouble connecting to it. I am able to join chat rooms, and do searches with no problems. However, when i attempt to download anything I get a "cannot connect" message.

I think the problem is that the ports that nicotine uses for listening (2234-2245) are closed. (At least, they are shown as being closed when I check them using a website such as YouGetSignal).

MSEC is on and shows the firewall as being disabled and the security level as standard.

Assuming I am right about the problem, how do I open these ports?

Thanks for any help!

How are you connected to the internet, by modem, router, or maybe anything else?

It's a DSL connection.

Sorry, showing my ignorance again. I'm going to guess it is a modem, but how can I know for certain?

Does it have any vendor, model name, number, anything that could be used to identify it?
C'mon, my crystal ball is rather foggy, can't see the damn thing from here.

I realize I'm not being terribly helpful here, not supplying the information you need to answer my question. Believe me I wish I could be more specific. Is there a way to list the hardware so I can get the information you require?

Uhmm ...
You're connected via a wire to your modem? Just follow that wire from your computer to your modem.
Now look at the modem, somewhere there should be something like a label, showing the manufacturer
of the device, the model name and number and such. Just post that information here.

Thanks for your patience.

The wire for the Internet comes into my apartment and plugs into the computer. The other end of the wire is invisible to me. Come to think of it, since I live in an apartment building in which one Internet provider supplies the connection for anyone who wants it, does this mean I am connected by a router?

maiqiang wrote:does this mean I am connected by a router?

I don't know. But as you seem to lack management access to it in that case, that's not really important either. Please post your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

Right, no management access. Here is the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10

Please post the output of ifconfig as root.

Okay, here it is:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:B9:75:7D:CB
inet6 addr: fe80: :21b:b9ff:fe75:7dcb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:29439054 errors:0 dropped:498156 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43071509 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13099220361 (12.1 GiB) TX bytes:38837880663 (36.1 GiB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:343913 (335.8 KiB) TX bytes:343913 (335.8 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:222.41.17.227 P-t-P:222.41.16.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:141026 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:240863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:16420670 (15.6 MiB) TX bytes:279096282 (266.1 MiB)

Could you please show the output of

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service shorewall status

as root?

The output is:

Shorewall is stopped
State:Cleared (Mon Dec 26 18:28:10 CST 2011)