Vital to the success of Gnutella is the acceptance by large networks, fast connections, and corporations. To do this, it must allow the end user to easily select a proxy to use, and so far this has not been done.

We, for example, use an HTTP proxy (which can be tunneled through) with Novell BorderManager NAT. This configuration represents what most large corporations have. Right now, we can't get files downloaded because of the problem with 1) port blocking, 2) NAT, 3) inside computers must request a file. The PUSH request has fixed number 3 (I assume, since we can't try it), and we can change the port, but the main problem is that we need to proxy the requests because of NAT.

We could ask the administrator to change the configuration, but to make it easier for others in the same situation to get connected, proxy support should be built in.

We use NAT as well, and I know that our administrators wouldn't change the settings for a few users. It's not that they disagree with putting Gnu on the network, it's just that they don't have time to change stuff that only affects a few users.

I agree with Travis - proxy support is an important part of the program and should be added.

Gnu would probably get 50% more users... there are constantly topics in the Support forum about Proxy support and "push" problems when two computers are behind firewalls and they can't talk with each other.