I have two machines running BitTorando behind a corporate firewall. So I don't have any control over opening up the incoming ports. Also, a lot of outgoing ports are also closed, epsecially in the classic P2P ranges.
Both machines are on the same IP subnet (with no firewall or NAT betwen them) and are downloading the same Torrent, using the same Tracker.
What is interesting, is that neither machine has uploaded to or downloaded from the other.
Is there a way that the two (or more) machines behind the firewall/NAT can exchange their collected torrent data on the LAN they are connected to?
In BitTorando, I tried putting my local IP address in BotTorando's advance settings, but didn't seem to work.
A sub question is: Is there a way I can find out what IP address the Tracker thinks these clients are using?
Another sub question is: As our fiewall does close off a lot of ports used by P2P programs, can I get BotTorando to request the Tracker to only return nodes that use (or don't use) certain ports?
Regards