SYNOPSIS

tor-fw-helper [-h|--help] [-T|--test-commandline] [-v|--verbose] [-g|--fetch-public-ip] [-p external port:internal_port]

DESCRIPTION

tor-fw-helper currently supports Apple’s NAT-PMP protocol and the UPnP standard for TCP port mapping. It is written as the reference implementation of tor-fw-helper-spec.txt and conforms to that loose plugin API. If your network supports either NAT-PMP or UPnP, tor-fw-helper will attempt to automatically map the required TCP ports for Tor’s Or and Dir ports.

OPTIONS

-h or --help

Display help text and exit.

-v or --verbose

Display verbose output.

-T or --test-commandline

Display test information and print the test information in tor-fw-helper.log

-g or --fetch-public-ip

Fetch the the public ip address for each supported NAT helper method.

-p or --port external_port:internal_port

Forward external_port to internal_port. This option can appear more than once.

BUGS

This probably doesn’t run on Windows. That’s not a big issue, since we don’t really want to deal with Windows before October 2010 anyway.

SEE ALSO

tor(1)

See also the "tor-fw-helper-spec.txt" file, distributed with Tor.

AUTHORS

Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@torproject.org>, Steven J. Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>