Dear LinuxQuestions forum members,
This has been a source of greif for me for quite a while. I am behind a firewalled college network with the majority of the ports being blocked (to conserve bandwidth, yadda yadda yada). I can ONLY use one P2P client in Windows called SongSpy ( http://www.songspy.com ) and it works PERFECTLY in such network restraints. The question is this: Does anybody know of such a client that can work on Linux?

NOTE: I don't know which ports are open or what ports SongSpy uses. Is there a way to find out?

NOTE 2: I am still messing with wine so emulating SongSpy is still not a valid option

Someone Please help!



NOTE to moderators: Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I think its closest to the "networking" section as i could not find a section for "applications".

To find out which ports are being used, run into a command prompt and enter netstat -a

Somewhere in the list will be CONNECTED or LISTENING and maybe a prog name.
Then, turn yr spy on or off and netstat -a again.
Something will change...

Set up yr Linux ssh or whatever to use those ports.

Have you port scanned yrself from within the LAN?
try http://www.insecure.org/nmap for a nice local scanner...
Rgds.

What I suggest to is use an ssh tunnel or proxy to get by the restraints and from there do whatever you want.

This is what I get with netstat -a BEFORE running SongSpy:

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP fallasteeni:epmap fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:microsoft-ds fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:1025 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3804 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3971 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3972 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:4257 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:4260 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:5000 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:8765 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:netbios-ssn fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3971 216-127-235-35.focaldata.net:http CLOSE_WAIT
TCP fallasteeni:4248 pop.hotpop.comop3 TIME_WAIT
TCP fallasteeni:4249 66.129.95.10:5190 TIME_WAIT
TCP fallasteeni:4257 vrp1.sjc.xpc-mii.net:http ESTABLISHED
TCP fallasteeni:4260 216.34.94.85:http ESTABLISHED
TCP fallasteeni:4261 pop.hotpop.comop3 TIME_WAIT
UDP fallasteeni:epmap *:*
UDP fallasteeni:microsoft-ds *:*
UDP fallasteeni:isakmp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1029 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1031 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1041 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1042 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:ntp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:netbios-ns *:*
UDP fallasteeni:netbios-dgm *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1900 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:ntp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1072 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1900 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:4258 *:*



This is I get AFTER running SongSpy:

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP fallasteeni:epmap fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:microsoft-ds fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:1025 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3804 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3971 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3972 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:4263 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:4266 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:4268 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:5000 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:8765 fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:netbios-ssn fallasteeni:0 LISTENING
TCP fallasteeni:3971 216-127-235-35.focaldata.net:http CLOSE_WAI
TCP fallasteeni:4249 66.129.95.10:5190 TIME_WAIT
TCP fallasteeni:4263 66.129.95.10:5190 ESTABLISHED
TCP fallasteeni:4266 216.34.94.85:http ESTABLISHED
TCP fallasteeni:4268 24-161-161-118.san.rr.com:5190 ESTABLISHED
UDP fallasteeni:epmap *:*
UDP fallasteeni:microsoft-ds *:*
UDP fallasteeni:isakmp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1029 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1031 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1041 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1042 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:ntp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:netbios-ns *:*
UDP fallasteeni:netbios-dgm *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1900 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:ntp *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1072 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:1900 *:*
UDP fallasteeni:4264 *:*



Can Someone Help me figure out all this Jargon? i cannot see anything different