[ale] Two-part Bit Torrent Client?

[George Carless]

It sounds to me as though you're describing a proxy - for which 
purpose anything like Squid etc. would do the trick just fine.

--George

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> I'm only looking at bit torrent for the first time, so perhaps I'm way out of 
> bounds.  It seems to me there would be some value in having a two part client 
> for those of us behind a NAT.  Specifically, I'm thinking that there could be 
> a server component on, or just outside the NATter.  It would be the true 
> client of the bit torrent protocol, and would be a daemon.  Then, people 
> inside the NAT could run clients that would talk to this server component.
> 
> I believe, this would avoid the need to punch a whole in my firewall to get 
> maximal throughput and follow good netiquette.  One could even make the 
> server component "stay connected" longer than the actual user, if necessary 
> to fulfill "good behavior".
> 
> Is there such a thing?  Is this reasonable?
> 
> David
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