DC not working with VPN

[Amol Mandhane]

Hi,

I recently found out that despite of tunneling through VPN you are not able to use DC++ outside IITB. Rest everything works as if we are working inside IITB. I am even able to connect to DC hubs. But I am not able to search or download anything. Not that it is necessary to use DC at home, what might be the reason for it to not work??

Regards,
Amol Mandhane | Co-ordinator |  Web n' Coding Club
IIT Bombay

[Antariksh Bothale]

Passive mode?

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[Sudarshan Wadkar]

I don't think so.
VPN is 'Virtual Network' , so you are 'virtually' part of the insti network. So it shouldn't be active/passive mode problem. Ermm, check your routing table or change listen interface of your DC++ client to the VPN interface.

On second thought, the VPN hardware might be blocking DC++

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[Praveen Kumar Pendyala]

Try to browse files of some user and download it. If u succeed then passive mode is definitely a solution. I recommend trying UPnp  then manual port forwarding and if nothing works out then to da worst case, passive mode. U may switch back to active mode later as u will to suffer narrow search results in passive mode, It might work, dunno why ;)

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Antariksh Bothale <antariks...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Antariksh Bothale]

Sudhi, I've had Passive Mode magically solve a lot of problems so I give it a try irregardless :P

BTW, if you are connected to the IITB network through a Wireless network, use Passive Mode.

[Diptesh Kanojia]

Used it on passive mode earlier, It should work.
though u might not be able to view some particular users files and connect to them.

Diptesh Kanojia