On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:42:03PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > That allows the client to make outbound connections. It will be able > to contact the tracker and find a list of potential peers - it can > then make outbound connections to those peers AS LONG AS THEY ARE > FULLY WORKING. What will fail is inbound connections, so other peers > cannot connect to you and that means you will most likely NOT be able > to seed once you have completed your download - tut tut.
I haven't studied the matter closely, but my understanding is that most clients notice that their inbound path is broken, and simply start making connections to other peers at random and then try to send them stuff. On an active torrent, they won't take long to find something to upload. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
