Gnutella in a LAN
 

I'm behinde a Win2k Router wich uses NAT and I'm not the only one in our LAN, who wants to uses Gnutella. So I'm asking if there is anny program wich we can run on our Server? So that we all can conect to our Server, wich is much bandwidth-efficient, isn't it?

Also I have a question about downloading from other Clients, witch are also behind a Router with NAT: Is there any Program witch runns the downloads from our Server, when I say it to it? Or something like a special proxy? Or do I need a special Proxy? When not, How must I configure a normal Proxy that it's working?

thnx.

Easiest solution
 

Set all clients in your LAN to use a different port number. Then enable portforwarding in the router computer. You need one routing rule for every computer in your LAN. After protforwarding is enabled and one port is forwarded for every IP in your LAN, set all clients in Leaf mode. Then you can use every client normally.

If the client you're using doesn't automatically detect firewalled status and external IP address, you need to set them as non-firewalled and enter the external IP address.

Download Limewire and use that as the server. If Limewire becomes an Ultrapeer, anyone within your network will use only a very little bandwidth, while the Limewire servent is doing "the hard work" (so only that servent would need full access to the outside world).

You still need to enable portforwarding if you wish to download from other firewalled users, or if you wish to let firewalled people to download your files. Without portforwarding you will have quite poor experience inside your LAN.

:confused: I have the same problem as the above user but cant get round it. Rather i cant get my head round it. I'm a bit new to mapped/forwarded ports and all.

In my gnutella client (freewire) ther is advanced options about firewall. It talks about "forceing" an IP address. I assume i am to enter my clients IP address and ther is a default port number that i accept. Then i go to the LAN server ( and also sotware router using Winroute) and i make a new mapped port with the IP address and port on the gnuttela browser firewall options.

This still wont make freewire connect so am i doing everything wrong or what?