Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:28:22 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 09:34:55 -0500, green wrote:
>
> > Brian, you seem to be assuming that the router has a public IP (on
> > the WAN side), which is often not true. Unfortunately, many ISPs
> > provide their customers with only private/local IPs behind NAT;
> > inbound connections are therefore not possible unless the ISP
> > agrees to forward a particular port or port range.
I am technically able to reach my local computer from outside the local
network by connecting to an IP address, assuming the proper port is
forwarded to the correct subnet address.
> Implicit in my reply was that assumption. It is what I am accustomed
> to, even though my own ISP offers the facility you describe. Thank
> you for pointing out how different ISPs allocate addresses. I will
> try to remember that a router may not have a routeable IP address.
> Given a choice of ISPs, I'd not choose one who imposes what you
> describe.
>
But although I technically *can* do this, very effectively, my ISP gets
pissy if I do it very much at all. :( This whole thread is really
because I want to do one-off data transfers without running a web
server and without necessarily having to worry about persisting
availability of data that might be being downloaded. If that happens I
could be disconnected (though probably temporarily).
- --
Aubrey
"There are two types of people in the world: those who
can extrapolate from incomplete data."
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