Using Freenet 0.7 through a firewall and/or router
Freenet 0.7 should work through your firewall and router with no extra configuration. If it doesn't, you may need to adjust the settings to allow your Freenet node to communicate with other Freenet users.
Freenet uses UDP for communicating with other Freenet nodes. Your installation of Freenet has a specific port number. You can see what this is on the Friends page, in the box at the bottom (or on the config page under node). If possible, open or forward this UDP port in your firewall or router (this may not be strictly necessary but is useful if the node trying to connect to you is also behind a router - most are). Details of how to do this vary according to what firewall or router you have - check their documentation for details or try portforward.com (pick a game, follow the instructions, change the port number to the above and UDP only).
If your firewall and router are configured properly, you have added other nodes to your My Connections list, and those nodes are online, you should see several of them with a status of CONNECTED.
If your reference does not have a line beginning "physical.udp", you can change the configuration variable node.ipAddressOverride ("IP address override" under node on http://127.0.0.1:8888/config/ ) to your public IP address (which you can get from www.whatismyip.com), however please *do not do this* unless you are sure you have a static IP address. A reference without physical.udp is somewhat useless, because others behind firewalls can't connect to you. Similarly, if your physical.udp address is in a private/reserved range (192.168.xx.xx or 172.x.x.x) you should follow the above procedure, as only those on your lan will be able to connect to you. Freenet *should* auto-detect your IP address, either directly or via STUN, within a few minutes of startup. If it doesn't, tell us, and you may want to get a dyndns address or something similar.
Don't mess with listen only / burst only. See PeerConnectModes for more details.
