On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:37:00PM +0200, Jano wrote: > Phil wrote: > >Sorry, hold on! I finally found the full set up instructions under the > >Frost guide. Unfortunately the newbie windows "guide" gave me (and no > >doubt many who 'no speak geek') the impression all I had to do was > >download freenet.exe, Firefox with a few settings changes & the reference > >file and blast away. Of course that's not it. Unfortunately. > > > >I'm running behind a proxy on a LAN, as it turns out by running ipconfig, > >with a dynamic IP (it shows a 'lease expiry' date as described). I've set > >up an account on dynDNS.org and a client and configured the freenet node > >address accordingly. > > > >Having got that far (taken most/all of the afternoon), I now find I have > >to reconfigure TCP/IP for a static IP (but on Windows 2000 the control > >panel doesn't seem to have anything resembling what is described in the > >Frost newbie guide). > > > >Also, I have no idea how I would get our ISP (or is it the LAN server?) to > >allow port forwarding (perhaps it already does, I don't know) from 51794 > >(the default on freenet.exe)to my PC. They would certainly want to know > >why I wanted to do such a thing. > > > >Any suggestions, or am I stuffed? > > I'm sure you'll get much more informed answers, but even without port > forwarding I've heard that you can get decent performance (I suppose by > means of your outbound connections).
Sometimes. It will certainly take longer to get assimilated into the network. Your node will be less useful to other nodes and consequently it will not be able to route as well as it should... otoh it may be less overloaded :). -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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