Hi, i'm at Sheffield University connected to the network, which has many other people connected.
LimeWire will not connect to the network out side the uni but does find a couple of ultra peers who are inside the uni on the network. And after about half an hour of been connected an annoying message keeps comming up that Lime wire cannot connect to the Guntella network, click OK and it pops up again and u can't use limewire.

When i searchbefore the message appears i see many files from users outside the network with slower internet connections but i cannot download them because the Uni's Firewall blocks all incoming ports

What i want to know is, is there a way of configurationg Limewire to only connect to other users on the LAN Network, and not to try and connect to users outside the network.

Thank You

It all depends on what kind of countermeasuers you admins took against people connecting to Gnutella. Changing your incoming port in the settings may help if your admins were sloppy.

The idea is that i don't want LimeWire to even try and connect to people outside the network, as this is when they can detect me using it.

I would like to create my own private Limewire network insite Sheffield Uni. A private network.

That's not possible with LimeWire out of the box. You'll probably have to take at least a look at the source code and set the proper variables.

I will create a LAN version in the not too distant future (by christmas or so) but I don't expect any official build to be usable in a pure LAN environment.

Can you suggest any good programs which will doo this?

The best i can find is Gnucleus LAN.

I don't know any pure p2p servent that I would currently use in a LAN environment. The best I can come up with is probably direct connect.

Thanks for your help, i'll give it a try.