On 10/18/07, Dazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
> I constantly see advice that for using a torrent I should set my
> router to port forward a number of ports to the using computer.
> Problem is that there may be more than one computer on the LAN using
> torrents now that they are so prevalent. For example, I have an old
> and a new gaming machine with different games that use torrents for
> patch days. I download a lot of Linux distros (normally on a Linux
> box) to try and torrents are great for that. I don't typically
> download any music but if I did it would be on my media machine.
>
> So the question is how does one deal with that sine the router can
> only forward those ports to a single machine. One thought might be to
> forward one or two of those ports to each using machine. How do
> people deal with this issue?
>
I found
http://youscrewedup.com/torrent_router_tutorial/ which seems
to answer the question in a couple of ways.
1) The name of the site is kinda wierd so I wonder if any of you can
verify the information seems legitiimate.
2) According to the NAT section, it seems like it will work if you
"just" unblock ports 6881-6889 on the router. I am wondering just how
unsafe that might be. Input?
3) Further down in the article under "port forwarding, virtual server"
it seems to talk about another method but I am a bit unclear on it.
It seems to me that would somehow require the torrent clients on
additional machines would have to somehow tell torrent servers to use
a different port range than usual and I have not a clue how one would
do that. Am I (once again) misreading something?
--
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
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