On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:57:13 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:

> "Cichlidiot" <fishlover@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:cbdts5$8po$1@woodrow.ucdavis.edu...
>> joe juan <joe_juan44@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yep - they are screaming under the weights of number of d/l's. Some
>> > of the slack mirrors with 10's have already reached their
>> > connection limits!!! Thank god for bittorrents - a bit slower than
>> > ftp - but what the heck? As long as I can get the iso's I can be a
>> > bit patient
>>
>> And I will practice even more patience, waiting for my subscription CDs to
>> arrive in the mail rather than attempting a download. Of course, even if I
>> had the CDs right now, I wouldn't have time until this weekend to do
>> anything with them. I need to rearrange my LAN, so might as well do it all
>> at once. Weekend wiring time! Heh.
>
> I just now ordered the CDs, and thought I'd try BitTorrent - I found
> the site, and was a little disappointed that they had Doze, Redmond^H^H^H^H
> Hat,
> Debian, and source. I suppose compiling from source wouldn't be so bad;
> anyway, I tried Windoze, and it tells me, "connecting to peers...", and
> shows
> no progress.
>
> For a little while, then I get a Red X "Download Error" "Problem connecting
> to tracker - HTTP Error -1:
> [OK]

There is a Slackware bitTorrent package in extra you can get off of one of
the mirrors. It's python and a little wierd to use, but I had no problems
downloading disks 1 and 2 last night at the same time.

> But, this is a doze box that's at 10.0.0.199 on my local
gateway's eth1,
> and the gateway's eth0 is dynamic IP to outside - would the fact that my
> connection is going through IP masquerading have anything to do with
> this?
>
> Or is it maybe just that it's loaded up?

Make sure you have incomming access to ports 6881 - 6889 TCP and this
should help.

Tyler