[GNUnet-SVN] r2152 - GNUnet-docs/WWW

[durner]

Author: durner
Date: 2005-09-27 07:44:28 -0700 (Tue, 27 Sep 2005)
New Revision: 2152

Modified:
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3
Log:
port 1080 needs to be open

Modified: GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3
===================================================================
--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3    2005-09-27 03:36:23 UTC (rev 2151)
+++ GNUnet-docs/WWW/faq.php3    2005-09-27 14:44:28 UTC (rev 2152)
@@ -356,11 +356,15 @@
 
 ANCHOR("firewall");H3("How do I have to configure my firewall?");
 BP();
-W("GNUnet uses port 2086 by default.");
-W("Configure your firewall to accept packets to port 2086 for the machine 
running the GNUnet daemon <tt>gnunetd</tt>.");
-W("If your firewall is a NAT box, forward packets to port 2086 to your GNUnet 
machine and tweak the configuration file gnunetd.conf (sections NETWORK, LOAD, 
UDP, TCP and NAT) to use the external IP of the NAT box.");
+W("GNUnet uses the ports 2086 and 1080 by default.");
+W("Configure your firewall to accept packets to the ports 2086 and 1080 (TCP 
and UDP) for the machine running the GNUnet daemon <tt>gnunetd</tt>.");
+W("If your firewall is a NAT box, forward packets to your GNUnet machine's 
ports 2086 and 1080 and tweak the configuration file gnunetd.conf (sections 
NETWORK, LOAD, UDP, TCP and NAT) to use the external IP of the NAT box.");
 W("Port 2087 is used for communication between <tt>gnunetd</tt> and the client 
tools as <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt>, <tt>gnunet-search</tt> etc.");
 W("There is no need to open port 2087 to the rest of the Internet.");
+P();
+W("Port 2086 is used for GNUnet's own transmission protocol, HTTP encapsulated 
GNUnet packets (\"HTTP transport\") are transmitted through port 1080 by 
default.");
+W("The HTTP transport is not necessarily required and can be disabled in 
GNUnet's configuration file.");
+W("Disabling it on firewalled systems is important, because available 
transports are advertised to other peers and activated but broken transports 
result in decreased reachability.");
 EP();
 
 ANCHOR("speed"); H3("Isn&#8217;t all this encryption going to make things 
totally slow?");