Howto: Install and use microdc2, the command line dc++ client

[SectorNine50]

Bump

No one knows what's goin' on here? I for the life of me can't figure it out.

[tnttrx]

The developer's site seems to have vanished. Any idea where I can get it now?

http://corsair626.no-ip.org/microdc/
seem ok, but you can get source and some tips from some getnoo mirror:

http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/distfiles/...-0.15.6.tar.gz
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/vi...d?revision=1.1
but I suggest applying slavemode patch to avoid 100% CPU usage:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162828
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=230553

[mad hamish]

Hi,

Managed to install microdc2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but only after applying the patch described in http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cg...26&action=diff . Thanks Gentoo guys!

The patch is small, requiring only one line of the ./configure script to be altered, which i just did manually through a text editor. I then followed the original instructions by sammydee.

[uuhujju]

Hello,

I am trying to set up microdc2, version 0.15.6. Everything works fine except for one thing - I am unable to make the client active. The computer running microdc2 is behind a NAT, I forwarded its port, set microdc2 to active mode but I can't figure out which IP address to use for listenaddr. External IP (that is IP of the router) doesn't work ("Cannot bind to address - Cannot assign requested address") and binding to anything else doesn't work either - i.e. clients are unable to connect and download anything.

Any idea what might have gone wrong? The Internets seems to be quiet about this issue, unfortunately

[uuhujju]

Well, for anyone having the same problem with port forwarding:

The solution is to set active mode PRIOR to setting listening address, otherwise microdc2 won't know it should "bind" to your external IP address (that is the one which your router is assigned).

So the proper configuration for your port-forwarded microdc2 behind NAT is following:

set listenport 44444
set active on
set listenaddr 1.2.3.4

AND forwarding BOTH TCP and UDP ports 44444 to your microdc2 machine.