Em Ter, 2004-01-13 às 14:06, Don escreveu: >> My idea is to move the server selection process out of the client and >> onto the network/server. >What about torrent-enabling servers to keep their bandwidth a little >lower (well, much lower most of the time) The problem I have with bittorrent is it doesn't work well with machines behind a NAT router. Or, I don't know how to set it up to work well behind my NAT router. :-) My understanding of how BT works... to be effective, BT requires other machines on the public internet to have access to my machine while my download is in progress. MY machine then acts as another source for files, effectively increasing the supply of servers for people to download files from. When I start a BT download, BT also starts a "server" on my machine to serve up the very file it is downloading. Since my external firewall blocks most incoming traffic, my machine won't even see a request from another machine. BT also detects this "non-sharing attitude" and thinks I don't play nice in the sandbox. I have multiple machines behind a NAT router.... if I want each of them to act as BT "sources", how can I do that? Answer: BT on each of my machines has to send a periodic "here I am" message to the main BT server. That "here I am" message will cause a brief (configurable) opening in my external firewall, and build the needed NAT translation so somebody "out there" can connect to each of my machines accordingly. As long as traffic continues, the opening in my firewall remains. It's doable, but I don't think BT does that now... it just assumes certain ports are open... Don
