Transmission

Necro'ing a bit, but i was looking for the answer too. And found it so i wanted to share.

libtransmission/rpc-server.c wrote:server->sessionIdExpiresAt = now + (60*60); /* expire in an hour */

Your answers are awesome guys.
Thanks a lot for all the very precise information regarding these additionnal ports.
It's very satisfying to understand what actually happens !

Ok thanks.

So they are dynamic ports, and placed in the range of the usual (tcp source) ephemeral ports...

Last question is : firewalling-wise, the first packet using these ports is incoming (ie net2fw rules in shorewall) or outgoing (fw2net rules in shorewall) ?

So you're both saying that there is a range of "dynamically listening" udp ports used by the daemon in addition to the fixed port of the config, i think i understand the reasons for it now. What i am not understanding is that the above-mentionned port numbers are outside the peer-port-rand...

Hello, Something tickled my curisosity. I'm using transmission-daemon 2.52-3+nmu1 from Debian wheezy, i've kept the default config except configuring up/down throttling, and i'm using the default port 51413 (which is fully opened). And besides tcp 9091, tcp 51413, udp 51413 there are 3 other (random...