port blocking, throttling, and scrambling

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Originally posted by Scyth
How do you know what IP your gateway peer is at?Who/Whatever gives you its IP can also give you the port number.

as i've said, this could be useful on a network such as kazaa or winmx because everyone can run on a completely different port, and there's no need for anyone (not even a supernode) to tie itself up keeping large lists of them and passing them backwards and forwards to people in complex webs, as they can be calculated on-the-fly by the program itself.

passing everyone's port around with everyone's ip address means that peers have to go around asking other peers which port they are listening on.. and if you don't know which port a peer is listening on, the catch-22 is that it's impossible to ask them.