• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get the port forwarding issue. If I’m torrenting something on port 78660 but my only outgoing ports visible to others is port 8081, then couldn’t I just tell my torrent software to use port 8081?

    I don’t really understand how torrenting is impacted by this, unless all torrent clients use a baked in port number (which from what I’ve seen over the last few decades, all torrent clients allow you to change the outgoing port)

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        1 year ago

        You lost me in that middle part. Are there any further resources I can read to understand this better?

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            1 year ago

            Oh I see!

            • Without port forwarding, you are a passive node that can only interact with active nodes but not other passive nodes.
            • With port forwarding, you are an active node that can interact with everyone (active + passive).
            • Passive nodes can upload/download but from fewer peers (only active nodes)
            • Active nodes can upload/download but from everyone