Are you sure it's using ONLY port 6881.  Normally these use a range of ports.

At 09:07 AM 3/3/2004, marc at omschaub dot serveftp dot net wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I need a little help with traffic shaping..  (I so stuuupid)
>
>What I am trying to do is limit the output of port 6881 to as little as
>possible.  Sounds easy, well I thought so too.  I put in a simple pipe to
>limit to 1 kbit/s and set up the rule as follows:
>
>         <shaper>
>                 <pipe>
>                         <bandwidth>1</bandwidth>
>                         <mask>source</mask>
>                         <descr>upload throttle</descr>
>                 </pipe>
>                 <rule>
>                         <interface>wan</interface>
>                         <protocol>tcp</protocol>
>                         <source>
>                                 <address>DellServer</address>
>                                 <port>6881</port>
>                         </source>
>                         <destination>
>                                 <any/>
>                         </destination>
>                         <direction>out</direction>
>                         <iplen/>
>                         <tcpflags/>
>                         <descr>BT Upload</descr>
>                         <targetpipe>0</targetpipe>
>                 </rule>
>                 <rule>
>                         <interface>wan</interface>
>                         <protocol>udp</protocol>
>                         <source>
>                                 <address>DellServer</address>
>                                 <port>6881</port>
>                         </source>
>                         <destination>
>                                 <any/>
>                         </destination>
>                         <direction>out</direction>
>                         <iplen/>
>                         <tcpflags/>
>                         <descr>BT Upload</descr>
>                         <targetpipe>0</targetpipe>
>                 </rule>
>                 <enable/>
>         </shaper>
>
>I have read this a million times, and by all accounts it should work.... I
>am obviously missing something stupid (yes it IS turned on).  And yes, I
>have double checked the program I am using and it goes through port 6881.
>I normally have between 30 and 80 connections out from that port at any
>given time (netstat -n).  I have tried this with the mask at source and
>none and neither works.
>
>Still the upload goes at full speed (5KB/s --my max-- at least as far as
>the program says (Azureus is the prog)).
>
>I need help.
>
>B.T.W. Runung V1.0
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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