[Mldonkey-users] Re: Funny mldonkey connection problem

[Ian Sidle]

> The problem is as follow:
>
> I run mldonkey in my laptop on my house dialing to the internet by 
> modem
> and I can use it without any problem, but when I try to use mldonkey in
> my office ussing the LAN connection I cannot connect to any server, and
> the funny thing is that when I switch to Windows (I have both, Debian
> Sid and windows on the same machine) and run Kazza I can download with
> this software, so I think this is not a firewall issue (I'm not 100%
> sure about this) I try to tell mldonkey that I'm behind a firewall but 
> I
> don't found this option to test it. Or to use a proxy server to run 
> some
> tools like tcpdump and the like.
First - your problem is that mldonkey does *not* use the kazza 
(fasttrack) network. MlDonkey works with the edonkey2k/emule network. 
So thats probably part of your problem.

It really depends on how the firewall is setup on if it can work or 
not. For example, maybe the sysadmin uses kazza and so opened it up for 
himself but has everything else closed. Although really the admin 
should have made it only open it for his personal computer in the 
first-place. Perhaps you could go and talk to your sysadmin to open up 
the ports for you.

 Of course, there is  the moral/legal questions of if you should  run 
any p2p programs at *all* at the workplace. Digest  version - you are 
being paid to work there so you should actually be working instead of 
messing around.

> Could you help me please to understand how mldonkey works and how to
> make it work on my LAN?

I believe there is some flags you have to change in the config/ini 
files to allow it to connect to the network behind a firewall/NAT.  I'm 
not at a machine that has mldonkey so I can't look them up.

-Ian Sidle