[ale] Two-part Bit Torrent Client?

[James Sumners]

http://dessent.net/btfaq/#proxy

On 7/5/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/05, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 July 2005 11:11 am, George Carless wrote:
> > > It sounds to me as though you're describing a proxy - for which
> > > purpose anything like Squid etc. would do the trick just fine.
> >
> > Yes.  A proxy, and a client to support, but not an http proxy.  A bit-torrent
> > proxy.  Last I heard, squid was a HTTP.
> 
> Is your issue that you have multiple machines running  bittorrent and
> it is hard to open up the firewall for all of them, or is it just that
> you have one client and would rather not open the ports for it?
> 
> If the latter, I don't see a big difference between a proxy, and
> opening up the ports on the firewall.  Either way you are putting a
> hole in the firewall.  I suppose there could be a political or
> administrative difference: If you have access to an outside machine
> but not to the firewall  you could still get bittorrent to work.
> 
> If the problem is that you have multiple clients and want them all to
> be able to participate, I'm really not sure if the protocol provides
> enough info to the proxy to determine which client to connect to.  The
> proxy would need to know which client the incoming request is for, and
> I don't know if the protocol provides enough information to map to a
> particular client.
> 
> Michael
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