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Firewalling for the NVidia ActiveArmor Firewall






 

Since you are reading this guide, I'm going to assume that you have Bit Tornado installed. Open up Bit Tornado.



Close to the top you will see a Prefs link. Go ahead and click that link now.



The Port Range box defines the ports that Bit Tornado will use. These are the ports that you need to open to your computer. Bit Tornado does not need the full 50,000 ports that come predefined. Go ahead and uncheck the Random checkbox. Enter 10000 into the From box, and enter 10010 into the To box. If you expect to download more than 10 files at the same time, then you should make this range of ports larger.



On this page there is a UPNP Port opening drop down box. Open it up and set that box to disabled. We are not going to use UPNP to open our ports. Now go find your router on our routers page, and open the port range you set above.

I've heard of and experienced this firewall causing "out of memory" errors with some programs. Just be aware of that when using this firewall. Go ahead and open up the Nvidia ActiveArmor Firewall.


Click the View the current Profile link.


In the main section of this page change the Security Profiles to one of the custom configurations. Put a dot in to the Re-generate profile based on radio button. I chose medium here, but you can choose any of the profiles to base your custom profile off of. Then click the Apply button at the bottom of this page. You should see a status page as the firewall generates the custom configuration settings. When it is finished you should find yourself back at the Firewall Basic Configuration Page. Now click the Firewall link on the left hand side of this page. Then click the Advanced Configuration link. Then click the UDP/TCP Port link in the left hand menu.


The default TCP/UDP port inbound action drop down box should be set to deny. Click the Add button on the bottom of this page. Then enter the settings as shown below.
UDP/TCP Port - Add Rule
Name
 
Any Remote IP Address
Specify Remote IP address and/or mask
Remote IP Address
Remote IP subnet mask
 
Beginning Port Number {min 0, max 65535}
 
Ending Port Number {min 0, max 65535}
 
Port Protocol
 
TCP/UDP port inbound action
 
TCP/UDP port outbound action
 
 
Click the Apply button to save that rule. That should be it. The firewall should be properly configured.