Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Sep 19 10:53:19 UTC 2005
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:10, Craig White wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:29 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>Darn. Bittorrent can't get thru my firewall. ftp-able iso's sure
>>>would be nice.
>>
>>----
>>Why don't you fix your firewall - IIRC, you control your own
>
> firewalling
>
>>Craig
>
>
> There are actually several places I'd have to take the tinsnips to in
> order to cut a bittorrent sized hole into here.
>
> Theres the router in addition to iptables to deal with.
>
> I've actually made several passes at it, but the relative lack of
> error reporting cripples me in that its a failure, but totally silent
> when I try to start a tracker.
You don't need to start a tracker to use a bittorrent client. I've
downloaded Fedora ISOs without problems at work, where I am sat behind a
Cisco PIX firewall that has *no* incoming ports open (though I can make
whatever outbound connections I like, which work as the firewall allows
the return data back in).
Paul.
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