[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[Phil Brutsche]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> You also need a NAT box that can sense the random port and automatically
> create a redirect for it, or respond to something like UPnP requests.
>
> How do you handle that?

There exists a UPnP daemon that works with Linux and *BSD, Linux-IGD
(http://linux-igd.sf.net).

Apparently it's in pkgsrc as linuxigd-current.

Just be aware that UPnP is a security nightmare waiting to happen ;)

Personally I "port-forward" TCP port 6881 manually.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com