Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > Now, this may be a silly question to ask, but anyway... > My home router is running out of redirectable ports, so I was > wondering: what would happen if I just configured the default > Transmission ports in the router and then let several users run > Transmission concurrently? I mean, without changing anybody's settings > from the defaults, so that all instances of Transmission used the same > ports? Would the packets somehow "know" which instance of Transmission > to reach,
No, they would'nt. > or would I just make a horrible mess? It would not be a mess: the first instance will be able to listen in the port, the others will fail when they try to listen to a port that is already used. > More generally: > can the *same* ports be "shared" among simultaneously running > applications or not? > Again, that is not possible. -- BOFH excuse #381: Robotic tape changer mistook operator's tie for a backup tape. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
