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Firewalling for the BullGuard Personal Firewall






 

BitComet chooses a random port to listen on when you install it. Before we can open ports for BitComet, we need to find out what port BitComet is using. Go ahead and open BitComet.



In the menu at the top of your screen, click Options. Clicking Options will cause a menu to drop down. In this new menu click Preferences.



In the menu on the left the top option Connection should be selected. On the right hand side of this window you should see a Listen Port option. That is the port that you need to open. You can change it if you like. Please enter the listen port below.

BitComet's Listen Port:

There is one more thing we need to do. We need to shut off the UPNP of BitComet.



In the menu on the left hand side under Advanced, click Connection. There should be an Enable UPnP Port Mapping(XP only) checkbox on the right hand side. Make sure it is unchecked.

Open up BitComet.


You might see a window pop up like the one above. If you do, put a check mark in to the Remember my answer and don't ask again checkbox. Then click the Yes button. Doing this allows all traffic in and out of your network for that program. Now we will show you how to limit what ports are allowed for that application. Go ahead and open up BullGuard now.


Click the Firewall button near the left hand side of the page.




On this page you will see a User Level drop down box. Make sure that it is set to Advanced. Then click the Profiles tab at the top of the screen.


Double click the Custom Security button.


Now click the Security tab at the top of this window.


Make sure there is a checkmark in the Detect Modified Applications checkbox. Then click on the Application Rules tab at the top of the window.


You should see an entry for BitComet in this table. If you see more than one entry for this application, delete the others so that there is only one entry. It is currently set to allow all traffic for this program. Change the Direction drop down box from In + Out to Incoming and click the OK button at the bottom of the page.


Another window should pop up for BitComet. Once again put a check mark in to the Remember my answer and don't ask again checkbox.Then click the Yes button at the bottom of that window. Now go back to BullGuard.


Double click the Custom Security button.


You should now see two rules for BitComet in this table. One of those rule's Direction should be set to Incomming. The other rule's Direction would be set to In + Out. Change this second rule's Direction to Outgoing. Now we have two rules for BitComet. One of them will regulate the incoming traffic and the other one will regulate the outgoing traffic. Double click the Ports... drop down box for the Incoming rule.
  
Ports
  Local Ports:
    
 
  Remote Ports:
  
Click the Ok button to save those changes. Then click the Ok button on the Custom Security page. Now BitComet should be restricted to only the ports it requires.