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I recently installed BitTornado on my computer. I was reading this and it mentioned that you get a different ip address everytime you reconnect when using a modem. It says that one way to solve this is to manually enter your ip address in the commandline option. However, I was wondering if there was a way to do this other than the commandline in BitTornado (perhaps somewhere in options?). If not, then can any of you explain to me how to do this using the commandline. I just don't understand this. If this helps, I have: a modem, and windows xp home edition. THanks.

PS: if you also know how to open ports in Norton Personal Firewall 2003, I would appreciate that too.

Normally, you don't need to supply your IP through the commandline, the tracker "detects" the IP automatically.

You can enter an IP in bittornado advanced prefs, but you only need this if, for example, you're running a tracker and the client on the same machine and you want to connect to the tracker with your external IP rather than your LAN IP.

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Actually, even in this case, you still don't need to specify the IP as long as you use your external IP/hostname as the tracker URL in the torrent file, the tracker program will see the incoming connection as your external IP and not your LAN IP which works provided that a person's router supports loopback connections using their external IP (some routers don't).

so even though my ip address changes since I am using a modem, I don't have to do anything, correct? thanks.