Fwd: [opensuse-gnome] Volunteer Needed - Torrent Apps for 11.0
(forgot to hit reply to all) Hi,
transmission and bittorrent-gtk look the best options to me, they seem to follow better the GNOME conventions (just works by default, with the ability to change settings if the user wants to).
I finished the refactoring in Monsoon which had been on the books for the last 2 weeks which removed the Druid which appears on first-run.
I am not a prolific torrent user, but I have never had to worry about port numbers, I just had a .torrent file and dropped that to the torrent app and it just worked.
As long as your client supports upnp/nat-pmp and so does your router, you don't need to worry about ports. Otherwise you will need to manually forward the port through your routers config pages. If you don't, you won't be connectable and so will suffer reduced performance. Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
tor, 27.03.2008 kl. 21.56 +0000, skrev Alan McGovern: snipo
As long as your client supports upnp/nat-pmp and so does your router, you don't need to worry about ports. Otherwise you will need to manually forward the port through your routers config pages. If you don't, you won't be connectable and so will suffer reduced performance.
Alan.
Had we only disabled the firewall that is more or less useless in this day and age for homeusers since they "all" have nat-routers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Had we only disabled the firewall that is more or less useless in this day and age for homeusers since they "all" have nat-routers.
We are going a bit off-topic :-) Anyway, a lot of users are connected through DSL modems, which do not offer any kind of protection. Moreover a distribution can't assume everyone is behind some sort of protection and disable the firewall. Regards, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
tor, 27.03.2008 kl. 18.11 -0500, skrev Alberto Passalacqua: snipo
Anyway, a lot of users are connected through DSL modems, which do not offer any kind of protection. Moreover a distribution can't assume everyone is behind some sort of protection and disable the firewall.
Regards, A.
Meh, modern dslmodems have a router built into them (atleast the ones used here for the last 5 years by the major isps) But no, this is not off-topic since upnp will only work if the firewall is disabled or the "right" ports were openend, or as Benji (I think) suggested that we should ship a interactive firewall. IMO that would be nice and annoying at the same time, but I could ofcource just disable the bugger like I always do. The point is, if there is a use upnp option, and that does not work since there is a "useless" firewall in place, that would lead to confusion since "new/converts" are used to just ticking that upnp thingamabob, or that it is already enabled by default. And "torrents" just work for them in the "other os" Why does it have to be more difficult here? Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
The point is that a firewall off is wrong in principle. You can claim you want it more user friendly, and I would perfectly agree, but not off by default. And hopefully it won't happen anytime soon in openSUSE. Regards, A.
Meh, modern dslmodems have a router built into them (atleast the ones used here for the last 5 years by the major isps) But no, this is not off-topic since upnp will only work if the firewall is disabled or the "right" ports were openend, or as Benji (I think) suggested that we should ship a interactive firewall. IMO that would be nice and annoying at the same time, but I could ofcource just disable the bugger like I always do.
The point is, if there is a use upnp option, and that does not work since there is a "useless" firewall in place, that would lead to confusion since "new/converts" are used to just ticking that upnp thingamabob, or that it is already enabled by default. And "torrents" just work for them in the "other os" Why does it have to be more difficult here?
Bjørn
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As long as your client supports upnp/nat-pmp and so does your router, you don't need to worry about ports. Otherwise you will need to manually forward the port through your routers config pages. If you don't, you won't be connectable and so will suffer reduced performance.
Right suggestion. The same upnp feature security guys suggest you to disable, and which is disabled by default an a lot of routers. Regards, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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