nnbnbi agree with the routing rules idea, except i give up straightaway when i look at my modem's configuration screen ... both of them are zoom brands , ones an x3 and anothers an x5... i have never used any other brands, but i thought these modems are quite popular since they seem to be in every computer shop that i look
i can do the second part of the routing , where 10.0.0.3 routes things from 10.0.0.2 to the internet (0.0.0.0) because i can find a routing table inside the config of the modem, but the first part where i select the ports to do this seems to be impossible on the modems, all i can see to do with ports at all is the virtual server which only forwards ports from the internet to specific computers on my computer...(please look at bottom of the post)
perhaps someone has written a special firmware that can change the functionality of the modem, probably the x5?this would be an ideal solution...
the other way i can think of is some kind of 'wrapper' software that makes the p2p software run like its in an OS that is configured to use 10.0.0.3... this is less ideal because the extra cpu that a wrapper like this can take...
a proxy idea doesnt sound so good after reviewing the help files of the program, it seems that it needs udp connections which proxies cant do (although
www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm
this site seems to imply that the proxy server should be able to handle udp connections, albeit this particular one cant do it on socks5 yet)... ive tried it by setting my own computer up as the proxy and sticking it to the p2p connection and its not working for several reasons, like a few that i dont understand which prevent my housemates emule from being able to access the ports, plus its deterimental to my own internet access because of windows xp sp2's limit on the maximum number of connections to my computer or something, just now i cant even open my modem's config page and i had to restart my computer... it would have been cool because the programs have built in proxy support, but unless theres a good method of setting one up ....
(please look here) hm, perhaps a way can be made, so that all the p2p ports are being forwarded from the p2p modem to the main modem via the virtual server, which is then routingtabled to 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 , but then again the connection attempt would still have been made through the main internet connection and all subsequent traffic would be returned to the main modem, and then blocked because of the lack of virtual server ports...plus the router would somehow have to tell which information packet is normal internet traffic, and which are p2p traffic, and i cant think of any way to do it.. or is it like, all the internet packets both have source and destination ports?
