Teksavvy and Bittorrent

[John Myshrall]

JoeHill wrote:
> George Nicol left a post-it on the fridge:
>
>   
>> http://www.portforward.com has detailed information on setting up port 
>> forwarding for a large number of different routers and it also has 
>> information on setting up a static IP address in your computer.
>>
>> To find out if you're behind a (transparent/anonymous) proxy, try 
>> ProxyJudge: http://proxyjudge.org/
>> It lists the HTTP headers that the server where it is running received 
>> from you. The relevant ones are HTTP_CLIENT_IP, HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR and 
>> REMOTE_ADDR.
>>     
>
> This is getting interesting...I think, I may be completely misunderstanding
> something here.
>
> My static IP, given to me by Teksavvy, is entered into the router's setup
> config as a 'fixed IP'. However, in the status section, it has a different IP.
> Also, the remote IP shown by my router is different than the one shown by
> proxyjudge...
>
> Is my old clunker of a firewall/router the thing giving me all this grief? I
> know, I know, I'll call Teksavvy tech support, but now, unlike with calling
> Sympatico, I'm afraid *I'll* be the one sounding like an id10t this time ;)
>
> Thanks for these links, they're freaking me out totally, but that's a sign I
> might just learn somethin' eh?
>
>   
This is very interesting considering on Proxyjudge a default Konqueror 
gave me 2.

I normally use Iceweasel or Epiphany both gave 4. I got some reading to 
do as well.

John


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