[Mldonkey-users] Re: you heard all this b4, low ID trash :)

[Sven Hartge]

philippe usenet <address@hidden> wrote:

> My reasoning is as follows : Since I can bloody SURF the web, thus
> *getting* and (more importantly for that matter) *putting* stuff, my
> machine *has* the ability to become a proper p2p client/server, if I'm
> clever enough to OPEN the good doors... 

Sorry, no.

Surfing the web means opening a data channel (tcp-connection) from a
port >1024 at your side to port 80 at the server side. Thus the
connection is initiated by you and this is a thing, a NAT router can
handle.

But P2P-Clients need to connect to you without you or the router knowing
from which port the connection is initiated.

The problem of _every_ NAT-router is: if a connection attempt is made,
it does not know, to which of the many computers "behind" it has to
forward the packets.

If you have only one computer, then you "just" have to tell your
NAT-router (i.e. your cable modem) to forward _all_ packets to your
computer.

If you are not able to do so (which it seems, since your telnet session
to the configuration frontend hangs), then you are *totally out of
luck*.

Ever tried to contact Alcatel about a firmware upgrade?

> The worst may well be the fact that I'm actually managing to *DLoad*
> stuff ! It drives me crazy : I *want* those files badly, but cannot
> give anything back ! Please help me to comply with the basic rules of
> the EDK network, and if any info is needed, please ask.

If you download, _you_ contact the others, which is handled just fine by
your NAT-router in the cable modem.

S°

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