On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:34:34PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed August 23 2006 12:32, Blars Blarson wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only > > > have to click on the link to start the download. This is true for > > > Windows and Linux. > > You left out the reconfigure the firewall(s) step. Not only is this > > non-trivial, the user may not have the ability to do so. > > This is a bit of a red herring. Torrents work without re-configuring > firewalls, they just don't work as well.
They don't work well if there's NAT[1] involved, you wanted to say. Do I need to point out a wonderful opportunity to push in some IPv6 propaganda? Too bad, most torrent clients seem to be heavily lagging behind the rest of network software even though it's them who would benefit the most from peer-to-peer (duh) addressing. Most but not all, and since you get to choose both the tracker software and the suggested clients... The relevant download page can say <<END * if you have IPv6 connectivity, or can configure it (->howto), download the ISOs using bittorrent. For this, install package XXX, or, on M$ Windows systems, download and run ->this. * if you have only IPv4, you can still use bittorrent. If you're behind NAT, your download speed will suffer unless you can reconfigure your firewall (->discussion). * if you can't run bittorrent at all, you'll have to fall back to ->http or ->ftp. This method should work everywhere, although it puts a strain on our servers. END I hope this is dumbed down enough to handle users who would be capable to reconfigure their firewalls in the first place. If they have that much clue, it's a waste to use a bittorrent-specific one-time fix instead of the Final Solution to the NAT Question. [1]. In the typical sense of the word, that is. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]