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Why is my firewall reporting connections being made by BitTorrent Mainline on a port besides the one I chose?

April 26, 2017BitTorrent chose firewall mainline port

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Why is my firewall reporting connections being made by BitTorrent Mainline on a port besides the one I chose?

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Only incoming connections use the port you specify in the preferences. Outgoing connections use a random local port (called an ephemeral port); this is simply how TCP/IP functions, and is not a bug.