Ports closed, even with no firewall

Just a question. When using a firewall and a p2p program you naturally make
a small hole in your firewall large enough to allow the p2p to function
correctly and give you maximum throughput, correct? Well, under vista rc1,
when when I turn off the firewall completely, my p2p program continues to
claim that there's a firewall up.

I've tried using various services online to scan and see if anyone can see
my ports and no one can see any of my ports at all. What's funny is that my
laptop, running ubuntu can be seen with lots of ports open and they both
share the same modem and router, so what's going on?

P.S. Even under ubuntu, I run a firewall, but I turned it off just to make
sure I wasn't going crazy.

dont you need to setup portforwarding on your router? my isp shows all my
ports as open even if theirs not a computer connected to the modem (so ping
doesnt timeout) maby yours does something similar though i have little
experince with the lunix operating system ubuntu but i think it would still
be the same ip wise

"Robert Caraballo" <robertcaraballo@NoSpamBellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Just a question. When using a firewall and a p2p program you naturally
> make a small hole in your firewall large enough to allow the p2p to
> function correctly and give you maximum throughput, correct? Well, under
> vista rc1, when when I turn off the firewall completely, my p2p program
> continues to claim that there's a firewall up.
>
> I've tried using various services online to scan and see if anyone can see
> my ports and no one can see any of my ports at all. What's funny is that
> my laptop, running ubuntu can be seen with lots of ports open and they
> both share the same modem and router, so what's going on?
>
> P.S. Even under ubuntu, I run a firewall, but I turned it off just to
> make sure I wasn't going crazy.