I know this is kind of an unusual thing to post, but I had to ask...

Does anyone use a router and use direct connect? If so, has anyone been able to use it in active mode? Before I got my router I was using it in active mode which is so much better. I want to know how to get it to work in active mode under the router.

being a long time (5+ years) user of direct connect,
and coming across many who had the same problem,
i wrote a help file on this problem.

chm version

html version

feel free to ask any questions.

good luck.

thank you very much for your response

the only thing is that the instructions did not work for me - but I think it is because there is some information I was not sure of...

I have a linksys router and I was easily able to get the wan ip.
I entered that into the dc connection area as you said.
The part I am not sure of is the port triggering.
You said to put 412 in there (and higher). The clarification I need is that there are several more options there that are not addressed.

I get a list of 10 applications to add to port triggering, but here is what I am not sure of...

Application name = DC
Trigger Port Range= 412 ~ ?
Incoming port Range= ? ~ ?

Obviously the question marks are the values I am asking about.

Thanks again for your response and I hope you can clarify this for me. I really like DC - it is the highest quality file-sharing program out there.
You wouldn't happen to know if MacGyver's Hub is down, would ya? I tried to connect but it doesn't work. Maybe he changed the address, I dunno.

set both the trigger and the incoming port range to 412 - 412.
you only need ports higher than 412 if you want to run multiple
clients in active mode.

indeed i know about MacGyvers' Workshop. i saw it founded,
was the first op there next to the owner, and now.. after all
these years, i have witnessed its demise, along with many
other DC hubs.

you can go here to see which hubs still remain.

there is however a good alternative to DC: fileshare. one of the
-=E.V.I.L.=- hubs has moved there, just before the other hubs
went down; Snow's Globe.

go here to get fileshare.
Snow's Globe is listed in the hub list, so it should be no problem
to get there. also, i am sure you will encounter previous visitors
of macs hub there.

good luck.

hmmm, that still doesn't work for me.

It's too bad about MacGyver's hub - it was quite good. I did from time to time also visit Snow's Globe so I am familiar with it.

I looked briefly at Flieshare - is it similar to direct connect - is there an active mode and a passive mode on it?

hmm, I was just looking at the site and apparently people are having the same problems with the router situation. However, there is a response and the instructions seemed to work for the person who asked. Perhaps I will try that out.

i have to admit that the linksys instructions in the helpfile were not
written by me, but since no one else ever complained about the
correctness of them, they were never altered.

if you found possible working instructions elsewhere, please try them.

as for fileshare - yes; it has active and passive mode; and the forums
at datakill have instructions on the subject, as well as having a group
of active and dedicated inhabitants.

good luck. and if linux will ever allow me to run fileshare, i might
meet you in Snow's Globe.

well, I tried both programs and followed the instructions to a T and neither worked.

One thing that was not explained very well was what ports I should enter in fileshare for:

Listen for other users on port (TCP) ????
Listen for searches on port (UDP) ????

I entered 1999 and 2001 respectively but that did not work, nor did the default values, I am almost ready to give up here, lol.

By the way, you can get a direct connect for linux version (you probably know about it). Anyway, if you don't, it is called DC-GUI and it is OK, but the database isn't that great so I have resorted to using Kazaalite thru Wine.

yup. i had dc on linux for a while, but since i felt dc going down
and changing too much from how i liked it, i left it a few weeks
before evil took the big jump into nothingness.