[clue-tech] Limewire Private Network

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:47:38 -0400
Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> > A friend and I tried this out a few weeks ago, and got nowhere. We
> > both have Jabber accounts, both forwarded every port we could think
> > of might help, and both, at one point, completely turned off all
> > firewalling. Bupkis. Neither of us could see the other's files.
> >
> Did you both connect directly to your ISP's routable IP address?  Or 
> were you using a LAN through NAT?  That's the only thing I can think of 
> that would get in the way.

I can't speak to what's going on behind the scenes. I don't know how
Limewire figures out what addresses to use, but I assume it's got that
part figured out. Probably, it uses something in Jabber to figure out the
address of the router, or it uses something in the Gnutella protocol to
do that.

jed