Thank you again, Matthew (and Volodya) for your patience with my naive questions. Regarding the Firefox issue, I've found a Win BAT file <http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Tips_Multiple_Fx.html> that facilitates running multiple instances with different profiles.
I've had a node up on a Win NT box for ca. 24 hours in promiscuous mode. It's connected to ca. 20 nodes, and is slow but acceptably-responsive. When I'm not browsing, input and output rates are 16.1 KiB/sec and 18.6 KiB/sec respectively. Although output tends to mirror input, there are frequent output spikes that seem to originate from my node. In other words, my node seems to be working. I haven't seen anything (in the security links that you've posted, or elsewhere) about gaining admin access to other nodes via Freenet. I can't imagine that y'all haven't considered this in coding Freenet. So I'm being unreasonably paranoid, right? Of course, there's always the risk of downloading malware (or getting it from my ISP =-O). Yesterday, I also had a node up for ca. 12 hours on Ubuntu 7.10 in VMware Player. Before I trashed it and went to sleep, it was connected to ca. 15 nodes, and seemed happy. However, although I added this node and my Win NT node to each other as trusted peers, they never connected. Is that a consequence of running in promiscuous mode? How do I tell them to connect? I have a relatively underutilized Win SBS 2003 server, and I'm thinking of setting up a node in Ubuntu/VMware via a dedicated physical NIC. And I'm thinking of running in nonpersistent mode, so that the node and all traces of its activity are lost when I shut it down. Would that be problematic for Freenet, if the node were up for at least a few weeks per instance? Also, I'd appreciate guidance re optimal CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth settings. The server has two 3.6 GHz Xeons and 4 Gb RAM, and I could spare 100 Gb RAID 10 storage and maybe 50 KiB/sec output bandwidth. = Jim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
