Hi, I am on a college campus, and I assume that my network administrators have put a block on the Gnutella net, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get around this because I heard that Gnutella was pretty hard to block. I'm running MacOSX and my connection is fine over dial-up, but as i've already mentioned, it won't connect when i'm using Ethernet. Anyone esle experiencing the same problem?? Thanks in advance.

Gnutella is pretty easy to block. Simply drop all packets to destination port 6346 & 6347 and no connection to gnutella will be possible anymore. As an alternative you could scan outgoing packets for the line
"GNUTELLA/0.6 CONNECT" and drop them. The effect will be that you will never make a successful connection and there is nothing you can do if your admin has the slightest clue of what he's doing.

So there's nothing I can do? I think most of the campus is using Direct Connect, but it's for Windows platform. I tried Drumbeat, but it is sooooo slow, and often doesn't work. Any other ideas?

There's a java version of DirectConnect.

Do you know the URL b/c I went to Neo-Modus' site, and the only available downloads were for PCs. Thanks for your replies, btw.

Nevermind, I found it.

i, too, am a disgruntled college student. Limewire will connect, and turn out searches, but the speed is rediculously slow, as in only a few bytes/sec. I've had some pretty decent success with morpheus 2.0 and the ethernet up here, getting up 100's of kb/sec, even mb/sec. I want to use limewire so i can find more stuff, but am I out of luck?