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Old March 7th, 2001
Maxim Maxim is offline
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Exclamation Attention: Users using NAT

Hi.

If you're using NAT, for instance on a hardware firewall/router, or a Linux firewall/gateway, please, please, please, set your ip addy in your gnutella client to reflect your EXTERNAL internet addy. That addy is the one assigned by your isp. I've seen about 20% of my searches returned with either an ip addy of 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.111.x ... this is because your client is detecting your INTERNAL ip addy. Unfortunately, that isn't all that useful to those trying to download files from you. Most clients allow you to specify your ip addy. Please take the time to make sure you're setting it correctly. Doing so will help the community greatly.
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