On 6/19/06, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus at sitharus.com> wrote: > On 6/20/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > So is it a panacea or a nightmare? Do we want UP&P support?
> > It would have made my initial install easier, but not significantly > so. I think it'd certainly help the masses who don't know what port > forwarding is. > But also those same masses wouldn't know how to turn UP&P play on in Windows XP SP2 and beyond, so for most people its a non-starter. If we need to explain how to turn UP&P on, we might as well just provide links to a "how to turn on port forwarding" help page with the most popular routers covered. I would be willing to cobble something up from the various help sites on the Internet and create a wiki page that we could copy into the node code. We should probably also have a HELP link on the Fproxy home page that links to a local copy of the Wiki FAQ and "how to turn on port forwarding" pages. I think if people are savvy enough to install Freenet and to exchange refs with each other, they can figure out how to do port-forwarding. Do we have any measurements on what proportion of our users have vs. don't have port forwarding turned on? We might be chasing a non-issue... P.S. ARK's seem to work quite well as I've had two people give me their refs accidentally missing the physical.udp line and my node looked them up just fine! :) > -- > Phillip Hutchings > http://www.sitharus.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. - Voltaire
