July 9th, 2001
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 Re: Port question
Quote: Originally posted by TruStarwarrior
Perhaps I am not understand exactly what it is you want to do with port 5190. I always thought that a port is used for one type of protocol, not several. If you wanted to switch Gnutella to another port, wouldn't it make sense to use one that is not being used by another service? If using an already claimed port #, there would be more traffic on it than the current network already has. What would be the advantage of using AIM's port? | --
The reason it would be good to switch to 5190 is that when (not an if) ports 6346,6347 are widely blocked, we can move there and if they block 5190, they will also block Aim, and the Aim users will be mad. 5190 is also a good choice because there's not too much alternate traffic. Some idiot might come in and say "Why not switch to port 80?? They can't block that!!" Because the rest of the internet is using that port and it would take hours to connect, let alone download something. For now, it makes sense to stay put on 634*. But very soon these ports will start being blocked, and we'll need a plan.
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