apt-p2p: how to tell if it's working?

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Camrdale,

I was wondering how I could tell whether apt-p2p is working or not.  /var/log/apt-p2p.log contains a bunch of stuff, but I never see any peers make requests of me.

Prior to splitting my PORTs into 9976 (for apt requests) and 9977 (DHT UDP port), I saw requests coming through (I saw "sharing ...." in the log file).  Now, however, I no longer see such messages.

I tried the nmap trick to see if the UDP port is open on my router and it claims to be.  And I do notice a lot of "Adding node to routing table " in the log file, so I assume that some UDP pings are coming back.