From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Opperisano Subject: Re: I need a clever solution for two Bittorrent machines behind a firewall Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:43:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20041118174309.GA16065@bender.817west.com> References: <00c801c4cd90$8980f090$0400a8c0@bradmorgan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00c801c4cd90$8980f090$0400a8c0@bradmorgan> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:03:33AM -0700, Brad Morgan wrote: > I'm using a Linux firewall with IPTables as my home firewall. Both my son > and I are gamers and my son actually has a couple of machines so he and his > friends can game together. > > Blizzard's new World of Warcraft uses a custom Bittorrent for their patches > and it looks like both my son and I will be playing this one. At the > moment, I manually switch the target computer before going online (we only > had one login during the open beta) but since you don't know until you login > if there's a patch and we may buy two copies for simultaneous use, I'd like > to figure out how a clever way to switch the target machine "on the fly" so > we both take advantage of the increased download speed of a cooperating > Bittorrent client. I've experienced the speed difference because our first > install didn't have any ports open and it was SLOW (over an hour). The > second install took maybe 10 minutes to download patches with the proper > ports open and forwarded. > > Anyone have any suggestions? Pointers to solutions or other places to ask > the question will be gladly accepted. i suppose it depends on the flexibility of the bittorrent client. the one i use has the option to specify my "incoming TCP listen port." so each machine behind the firewall just needs to specify a different port, and you can forward accordingly. i'm not familiar with the game your talking about or how it implements its BT client. -j -- "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!" --The Simpsons