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Re: Looks like it is designed to punish those who slow uploads One way to solve this is by designing a client that hides the users IP addresses. I never quite understood why my IP needs to be seen or is shown to other users. |
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 vpokoPremium
join:2003-07-03
Boston, MA | said by compton:One way to solve this is by designing a client that hides the users IP addresses. I never quite understood why my IP needs to be seen or is shown to other users. Hiding it in the client doesn't really help - you can still see the destination IP address of any packet sent from your computer. |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to compton
Because then the internet wouldn't work at all. They don't have to have the IP address visible in the program but you can't hide an originating IP address with TCP data transfers. Just typing netstat in a command prompt you can find out the IP address you are connected to. |
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How would that work in a peer-to-peer system like BitTorrent? Beyond the tracker system, all of the data is shared directly between the client computers and to make that happen you obviously need to know the IP address(es) to connect to. |
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