On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:12:18PM -0800, Don wrote: > 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. :-)[snip] The answer to many p2p protocols such as BT is the pattern matching abilities of a netfilter module such as Layer-7 Packet Classifier (L7 for short) at: http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net This module works via the queue target. The BitTorrent module currently gets a "blue" rating on the site which means that the authors think it behaves as coded but could use more testing. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx