Port Forwarding on my firewall
 

I have a firewall between the Internet and my machine. I have it set to forward port 6346 to my machine which has a 192.168.x.x type address.

Will Xolox be able to figure this out and serve files to other people? I don't ever see people downloading from me.

Known problem
 

Xolox offers no "forceIP" options, it tells the private network address (LAN) instead of the real internet IP.

So you can only serve gnutella push requests, these do ONLY work if the opponent has no firewall and/or can accept incoming connections. According to the limwire gnutella network statistics only a few percent of the clients can accept incoming connections (you can't eighther at the moment). Just watch your gnutella servant a while, for sure there are people downloading from you! Do you share enough files? :)

Meanwhile.... if you have access on the computer with the real internet IP, run a socks proxy and connect Xolox to that proxy service.

Hope it helps, Moak

yeah, I have access to the machine, but getting a socks proxy server on there would be a bitch. Heck I don't think it would fit since the firewall (linux box) runs off of a floppy. (I think the floppy is full).

Anyway, yeah, Xolox definitely needs a ForceIP option. (I admire the simplicity of Xolox a lot, but I think it is too simple.)

So until then, I'll be using Limewire since I don't like to be a leech. (Sharing is what makes the network work!)

hey, I have started a Linux masquerading module project (we did not start yet). But once this module is finished... it will solve this problem, no need for a force IP settings anymore (with linux boxes) and will also enable incoming traffic. Similar to the FTP or IRC module.

Read more details here:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=4163