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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 6 September 2002, 04:22

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: Master of Reality on 6 September 2002, 04:22

I have tried many a P2P filesharing program for windows and Linux, the two main ones that i used were gtk-gnutella and WinMX. Well these two P2P programs both have settings to go through a proxy, but neither will work through my proxy. I set them to go through my proxy 192.168.0.1 at port 3128 and it still times out when trying to contact any servers. Got any ideas as how to get them to work through my proxy? They wont work with just MASQUERADING or NAT for some reason very little seems able to be MASQed.

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: voidmain on 6 September 2002, 07:54

I have to admit I don't use any P2P utilities but the principles should be the same as many other clients behind a firewall.  I just looked at the gnutella pages and are you connecting to a host cache? If so, on what port?  You'll need to open that open up that port for outbound connections to the destination host address on your firewall and it "should" work. I don't understand the point of going through the proxy unless you would rather control access via the proxy.

Now having said that I see that it says gnutella works well if "one" person is behind a firewall. Well I assume that is because one acts as the server, and the other acts as the client.  If you want to expose your machine as the server end you will need to use port forwarding on your firewall to expose your gnutella port on your internal machine to your external IP address. That is port forwarding. I use this all the time with firewalls and it works well. Now as I said, I am no particular experience with gnutella but it's a TCP/IP app, and that's the way TCP/IP works...

I suppose I could set up a client (and we could test it between us). But I'm an old dog and at this point I have no personal need for P2P as the old tricks (ftp/scp/http etc) still work fine for what I do.

[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: Master of Reality on 7 September 2002, 00:46

i just use it to dl Deep Purple and Black Sabbath... all i need is an record burner.

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: dbl221 on 7 September 2002, 03:07

My gtk-gnutella works fine using my NAT router...just set up your router to forward a port to your host on the LAN and tell the p2p application to use that port.  Then others can connect to you.  If you need to find out what your WAN IP is behind a NAT router use my perl program at...WAN IP Perl script (http://www.caunter.ca/tools/wan.txt)

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: voidmain on 7 September 2002, 03:13

And I suppose by "record burner" you mean you need the ability to create an audio CD?  "cdrecord" can create audio CDs as well as data CDs.

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: Master of Reality on 7 September 2002, 07:17

no, i really meant something to make vinyl records.

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: voidmain on 7 September 2002, 08:04

Ahhh, here's what you need to do:
http://www.mmsdirect.com/products/vinyl_how.html (http://www.mmsdirect.com/products/vinyl_how.html)

Title: P2P + Proxy
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 7 September 2002, 08:22

Only $2.26 each...not bad. Too bad you have to order them by the hundreds.