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    Firewall slowing down and dropping torrent connections

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      PF4PFS
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      Hi guys

      I am having problems when I use torrents;
      Below is the rule that enables outside clients to reach the workstation that runs Torrents

      I am seeing a lot of connection initiated from outside to port 54321 (torrent client) that are being dropped
      At the same time after a while I firewall slows down making the browsing very slow and other connection initiated from outside ( like, RDP or http)  impossible to establish.
      I believe that this is probably related to some FW limits that have to be adjusted but I am not sure what exactly is being saturated

      Does anybody know what I have to do to fix this?

      thank you
      PF

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        Nullity
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        For torrents, you likely want to also open UDP port 54321.

        Are you saturating your connection's bitrate? Traffic-shaping can help.

        By default, pfSense should be able to handle a hundred thousand states ("connections").

        Please correct any obvious misinformation in my posts.
        -Not a professional; an arrogant ignoramous.

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          PF4PFS
          last edited by

          Thanks , I did not realize that, the former Linksys used to open both

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