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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: zakmck on March 25, 2007, 04:10:59 AM

Title: Are KAD and LOWID related? What if I don't administrate the firewall?
Post by: zakmck on March 25, 2007, 04:10:59 AM
Hi all,

Maybe this is yet another question about the evil lowID, sorry can't find an answer...

If I use Kademlia, and not E2K, do I still need an highID? Does KAD still need to listen on some port?
If yes, can I do something if I am a NATed host in a wireless network whose firewall is not administered by me? If that is the case, isn't this a too painful restriction? Isn't a way to make the peers connect one each other even when they are firewalled? For instance two loID could both connect an hiID peer and use it as a bridge.

Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Are KAD and LOWID related? What if I don't administrate the firewall?
Post by: skolnick on March 25, 2007, 07:37:52 PM
Hi!

Yes, KAD also needs HighID (It's not called highID, in KAD status lowID=firewalled and HighID=OK or Open). If you can't configure the firewall, and for sure you can't get highID, simply connect with lowID. There will be less sources, but it will work. What you mention of connecting two lowID users via a HighID user is not implemented in aMule, but a mod of eMule called neomule has it. It's called NAT-Traversal and it works in a similar way to UDP-hole-punching.

Regards.
Title: Re: Are KAD and LOWID related? What if I don't administrate the firewall?
Post by: wuischke on March 25, 2007, 11:53:26 PM
Request this feature in the bug tracker (http://www.amule.org/abugs), maybe someone will code it soon.
Title: Re: Are KAD and LOWID related? What if I don't administrate the firewall?
Post by: Kry on March 29, 2007, 04:34:19 AM
I think a forum search about NAT-Traversal is in order... you two dissapoint me!
Title: Re: Are KAD and LOWID related? What if I don't administrate the firewall?
Post by: skolnick on March 29, 2007, 05:06:49 AM
I think a forum search about NAT-Traversal is in order... you two dissapoint me!
:(

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