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DS development > wifi/wfc question

#107225 - Lotti - Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:34 pm

hello guys! i have a very BIG problem

in italy there is an ISP (fastweb) that provides PRIVATE ip behind a NAT ip shared between a lot of users.

so two or more from this isp, cannot play through nintendo's wfc. but there is a "partial" solution: open multiple ftp connection to gain a temporaly public ip with a specific port.

but i need to know what port the nintendo wfc uses.. do you know what is the port?


another idea that i got is to create a server/program that runs on a pc and is able to get the normal ds' wifi (not wfc, but wifi between ds devices) and redirect it over tcp/ip to another pc with the same program. so there is a nice schema:


DS server <---> PC1 <---> TCP/IP <---> PC2 <---> DS client

this would be very nice.. but i think impossible to do :\ what do you think?

#107261 - felix123 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:58 am

Lotti wrote:
DS <---> PC1 <---> TCP/IP <---> PC2 <---> DS

Would this do?
http://www.akkit.org/dstunnel/index.html

#107266 - TJ - Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:35 am

Well, that isn't a working product, so probably not.

I don't know about this FTP business, but have you looked into SSH tunnels or some form of proxy?

#107272 - josath - Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:09 am

From what I can figure, I think you are asking for what is known as a 'VPN'. That would probably solve your problem, but I don't know of any that are easy to set up.

#107290 - Lotti - Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:10 am

dstunnel will probably solve my problems but isn't done :\ i'll try to contact the developer.

i'll look for ssh tunnelling and proxy but i don't think that this would help me (they wouldn't create programs like mozzarella/pomodoro if a proxy would fix this problem..)

what about vpn? ok i'll tell you :) my fucking ISP doens't provide free VPN service. it is locked :\

sorry for bad english