[patricxu]

What is the difference between the extern and intern port in Kad?

[tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]

Well, the one is your intern port (the one you set in the preferences and think you are using) and the other one is your extern port (the one other clients can contact you on - basically your REAL port).

If you have no firewall/routers and your ISP isn't using some kind of mapping then the intern port == extern port.

This post has been edited by tHeWiZaRdOfDoS: 04 August 2009 - 09:26 AM

[patricxu]

tHeWiZaRdOfDoS, on Aug 4 2009, 10:25 AM, said:

Well, the one is your intern port (the one you set in the preferences and think you are using) and the other one is your extern port (the one other clients can contact you on - basically your REAL port).

If you have no firewall/routers and your ISP isn't using some kind of mapping then the intern port == extern port.

However I find the extern port is equal to the intern one when I am in a LAN, even though the extern IP and the intern IP are not the same. It seems emule always sets the extern port as same as the intern one.

[tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]

The IP isn't interesting, it's the port that we are talking about, here...

EDiT: well, if you forward the proper port, then the internal one will be equal to the external one... but imagine a case where all requests to port XYZ are forwarded to port ABC... in that case the EXTERNAL port will be XYZ and the internal one will be ABC.

This post has been edited by tHeWiZaRdOfDoS: 04 August 2009 - 12:08 PM