ckamin:
Your mention of the Local and Remote peers and the firewall pointed me in the right direction. I found the answer to the Linux firewall at the following URL. The bittorrent section had the correct instructions.

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html

I am now downloading the DE version of the Knoppix DVD at speeds up to 124KBs @ 65% my average download speed is 76.99KBs. So, basically, I did the following:

1) set the SMC7004ABR router for addresses 6881-6889 and 6969. Defined the trigger ports as shown in the following URL.

http://www.lickmytaint.com/forum/top...65&whichpage=8

scroll down to find the post by silf

2) installed BitTorrent using the instructions by stanton-finley (see above) and then set up the iptables.

3) downloaded the torrent file and clicked on it (double I believe) and it started and is running very well.
This is almost as easy as the Windows project, but not quite.