Check <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=gnutella+firewall&hl=en&lr=lang_en&selm=f a.je49ltv.1930fo4%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=3">this</A> out.

In the worst case, try:

use gtk-gnutella or some other client which allows <A HREF="http://www.samair.ru/xwww/proxy.htm">a proxy connection</A>.

But I don't think you need to. Most clients let you specify a port other than 6347, just try unused ports, you should be able to get files by push request.

If it doesn't work it is because the firewall is lousy. A good firewall should track your outgoing push request, and allow the incoming push back along the same connection. If it doesn't work, then I wonder whether you can get any web pages that are not on 80 or 8080?

Gnutella uses HTTP just like a web browser. A push request works just like a web page retrieval, AFAIK.

You might not serve many uploads, but I think it will work. If not, I think the protocol could easily be fixed (and should be! who wants to be blocked by sniffy system administrators!) so that all most requests work like web page requests.

The SysAdmin