On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:38 am, Stroller wrote:
> >
> > You only have to open specific ports on firewalls if you are serving a
> > torrent. Others jumping on it have no problem, and are encouraged to
> > do so,
> > since they make everyone's download rate go up.
>
> I think you're mistaken. As far as BitTorrent is concerned there should
> be no difference between someone "serving" a torrent (IE: the original
> individual with the complete file) and other peer with parts to share.
> Someone who is NATted or firewalled but who has the complete file may
> contribute very little (if at all - I don't know how BT implements
> this) to other peers.
I wonder if the fact that I've enabled stateful connection tracking makes a
difference:
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -i eth1 -s !
$INTERNAL_NET -j ACCEPT
But you're probably right...
> Stroller.
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