slackware 10.0 is out

[Steve Holmes]

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So has anyone on here used bittorrent from behind a router/firewall?
If so, what ports did you forward back into your client machine?  I
was hoping to get this going while I was at work but if I have to go
and messaround with port forwarding and all that jazz, I guess this
will have to wait <sigh>.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:49:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well I got it going by typing btdownloadcurses.py
> slackware-10.0-install... but the performance is downright horrible!
> try rates worse than dial-up 1.2 kb/s and slower.  I haven't tried the
> many route yet.  Perhaps I'll kill this current process and see if I
> can get something better going.  I'm initiating this from my remote
> connection at work and cannot alter my router so not sure now if that
> is an issue anymore or not.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:16:27PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:23:05AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > Does being behind a firewall / router have anything to do
> > > with it? 
> > 
> > Yes. From running btdownloadheadless.py without arguments:
> > 
> > --minport <arg>
> >           minimum port to listen on, counts up if unavailable
> >           (defaults to 6881)
> > 
> > --maxport <arg>
> >           maximum port to listen on (defaults to 6999)
> >  
> > There also seem to be some indications that it uses http port 80, but
> > I think that's only for getting data, like you do when you're
> > browsing. I could be wrong though. 
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
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