Em Ter, 2004-01-13 às 19:12, Don escreveu: > 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... I don't remember how it works, but I've seen some machines running it (and sharing) from behind a NAT. If it sends a "here I am", the connection could be done from this point - once it begun inside. I don't know if bt is smart enough though. -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
