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crash893

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I dont recommend this but wouldn't UPnP work

Tril

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Quote from: BlueBird on February 26, 2011, 10:17:31 PM

I have two copies of BitCoin running on two computers behind the same router with both systems pointing to the same 8333 port. Only one computer gets more than 8 connections, but why cant both systems use the same 8333 port, my router allowed the assignment for each system?

P.S. If anyone wants to generate a transaction or two they can send to 1C4eBje7vpxuE2deewfiNj8zgoiF4jpV4C I will send it back at you, send your address. Have fun!

Jim

This is a limitation of TCP- a connection end point is uniquely defined by an IP and a port number. If you only have one publically-accessible IP address from your ISP, you can only have one bitcoin accept incoming connections on 8333. This shouldn't be a problem, though. I would forward port 8333 to whichever machine you have online more often, then connect the second machine directly to the first machine using -connect= on the bitcoin command line or in bitcoin.conf. This will be faster, anyway, as you won't be downloading the same block twice from the Internet; each block will go from the Internet to first machine, then to the other machine over the high-speed LAN.

BlueBird

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I have two copies of BitCoin running on two computers behind the same router with both systems pointing to the same 8333 port. Only one computer gets more than 8 connections, but why cant both systems use the same 8333 port, my router allowed the assignment for each system?

P.S. If anyone wants to generate a transaction or two they can send to 1C4eBje7vpxuE2deewfiNj8zgoiF4jpV4C I will send it back at you, send your address. Have fun!

Jim

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