Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler It seems to me from reading the comments that p2p is basically all about p2p discovery. ... Well... And NAT traversal. I also realize that from the discussion,

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 06/15/2014 11:12 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: I want to thank you all for all the comments you've sent in about peer 2 peer. It seems to me from reading the comments that p2p is basically all about p2p discovery. I also realize that from the discussion, the internet is now broken. The way p2p is

[Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread jc
While contemplating the problems our oldish linux gateway/firewall/router has been having, it occured to me that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with at least one of the connercial boxes that do the job out of the box. And naturally it also occurred me that the

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:00:58PM +, j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: While contemplating the problems our oldish linux gateway/firewall/router has been having, it occured to me that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with at least one of the connercial boxes that

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Gillen
I just bought one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704150 Put OpenWRT on it, and I'm loving it. The default firmware isn't bad, but had some issues bridging the wifi to my wired lan (which was on this access point's WAN port). Plus I wanted an excuse to put

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/16/2014 2:09 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: What's your budget? I think really highly of the Juniper SRX240h2, for example, but if you aren't planning on moving a couple hundred megabits per second across several links, it's probably wasted. ($2400ish, btw.) For that kind of money I'd recommend

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Metro
j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: ...it occured to me that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with at least one of the connercial boxes that do the job out of the box. Take a look at a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite or Pro: http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax It's priced like a consumer router,

[Discuss] port forwarding for a Tornon-exit relay

2014-06-16 Thread Daniel J. Fitzmartin
I'm working on a video for the Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation describing the installation and setup of a Tor non-exit relay on a GNU/Linux system. The notion here is to facilitate setting up a relay so as many people as possible will do it. I'm writing a bash

Re: [Discuss] port forwarding for a Tornon-exit relay

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 6/16/2014 10:16 PM, Daniel J. Fitzmartin wrote: Are these ports open? If not, port forwarding is required. There could be a few things happening. You only need to port forward if NAT is happening. You probably want to do something with uPnP to set that up in a semi-router-agnostic