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, or would I just make a horrible mess? More generally: > can the *same* ports be "shared" among simultaneously running > applications or not? > > P.S. I'm talking of users which are set up on the *same* physical box, > of course (a Debian Lenny w/ Gnome desktop, on a 192.168.*.* home > network) and can actually all be logged in at the same time using > Gnome's "switch-user-without-logging-out" feature. >
Eduardo already answered. I just wanted to add some suggestions to get around this problem. What exact model is your router? I might be possible to load an open source firmware(dd-wrt, openwrt, tomato(?), etc.) on it where this port forwarding limitation is not there. This would be, IMHO, the best solution. Another option could be, if your router allows it, to forward a range of ports to an IP address (your users are on the same physical box), but configure each user to use a different port within that range. For example, if you have 10 users, forward 50,000~50,010 ports to your IP address, and configure user0 to use 50,000, user1 to use 50,001 and so on. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
