Hi Paul, On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:49 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > Ignoring the fact that I have to open up a port on a desktop machine to > the internet (which I'm not that keen on, even on Linux),
No you don't. You _can_ if you want, but it will work fine without opening a port. I have various machines on my home LAN use bittorrent and none of them usually have ports forwarded. When I am in a giving mood and want to seed something I may open a port, but not always. Cheers, Al.
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