November 3rd, 2002
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Quote: Originally posted by Spooky
Clients which auto-detect the IP:
- Shareaza
- Bearshare
- Gnucleus
You seem to know how NAT routers work. So do you know what port forwarding is ? You're right LimeWire is not running on the router of course, but if you forward a port to the Computer running Limewire, it will be as if Limewire was running on the Router. But to make it possible for other clients to download from this user without a push request, Limewire needs to send them the correct IP, which should be auto detected! | Yes, I know what port forwarding is and how it works. I think however the success or failure of this will largely depend on the NAT implemenation. There are several ways nat is implemented and although I'm not sure how the products you mentioned implement port dectection. I assume that the methodology is built into the startup squence of the clients and I assume that they use a remote machine to determine the ip of the connecting client and then send that configuration information back to the application which is unable to determine correctly what its real ip is from stub domain behind a NAT device.
This is something that out of my own curiousity I might look into.
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