Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Marton Gabor <gabor.marton@××××××××××.hu>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] routing bittorent
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:16:43
Message-Id: 435CEC21.7000809@vehok.vein.hu
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] routing bittorent by radu herinean
1 Hi!
2
3 Or you could use a OpenVPN tunnel (http://openvpn.net, a good howto is
4 also can be found here) between your home computer and the office box,
5 and tell Azureus to use the tun0/tap0 interface, depending on whether
6 you want to use a TCP or a UDP tunnel. This sounds the easiest way to me.
7
8 Marton Gabor
9 <gabor.marton@××××××××××.hu>,<ICQ UIN: 169394884>,<T: +36 30 447-2042>
10 VE-MIK
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19 radu herinean wrote:
20
21 > greetings.
22 >
23 > i am looking into some ideas/solutions on how to solve a small need.
24 >
25 > i created a small lan behind a gentoo machine at home and need to
26 > route some bittorrent and similar traffic from this lan through
27 > another machine that is hosted at our office (different ip class).
28 > that one is also running gentoo and is connected only to internet
29 > (doing dns and other small-time services)
30 >
31 > the goal is to use the machine located at our office to route some
32 > bittorrent traffic for me, since i have a good connection to the
33 > office (high metro limit) and a lousy connection to internet (low
34 > international limit)
35 >
36 > i was thinking of a socks proxy with dante but i have no experience
37 > with dante so far.
38 > would dante do it?
39 > is there a better/easier way to do it?
40 >
41 > thanks in advance for any pointers.
42 >
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