Re: Re: [freenet-support] request for java 1.5 compilation ..

Ian Clarke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14 Mar 2005, at 23:55, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Matthew Toseland (toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]) wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:33:35PM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps you could clarify exactly what is wrong with Freenet working
>>> out-of-the-box for 90% of our users?  What is your better suggestion?
>
> The problem is when it fails to work for the other 10%.

Nothing I have ever proposed would preclude Freenet from working on any 
architecture with a non-buggy Java implementation and an even half-sane 
connection to the Internet.  Some scenarios may require a bit of 
configuration, but only because there is absolutely no alternative.

> The other half of the rant relates to my suspicion that the UDP
> NAT-hopping tricks will fail to work reliably on several kinds of
> firewalls.  I have absolutely no evidence to support this apart from
> this:

UDP NAT-hopping works on the vast majority of firewalls >>without any 
reconfiguration of the firewall whatsoever<<.  On the rest, it may 
require port-forwarding, meaning that even in the worst case scenario 
it is no different to Freenet, or most other P2P applications today, 
but in the scenario of the majority of Freenet users, it will be a 
significant improvement.

The NAT-hopping takes advantage of a very deliberate feature of most 
firewalls which allows them to facilitate bi-directional UDP 
communication, this feature is necessary because UDP is a 
connectionless protocol.

To get Dijjer working try forwarding UDP port 9114 from your firewall 
to the same port on your computer (in due course we will add 
instructions for doing this, Dijjer is still a work in progress).

Ian.

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