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In the xinetd manpage it says you can 'bind' a service to a specific network interface, so I've been fooling around with it a little, done some reading on the internet. But I can't seem to get it to work. Any suggestions?

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Never mind there's an option in the preferences to bind it already, no need to use xinetd I guess :)

---EDIT2---
Checked it and everything works like a charm. Kudos to amule again! 8)

Something came up and I think it may be an aMule bug. But I'm not too sure. I have two network interfaces with addresses 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.3 . In amule.conf I have the line: Address=192.168.0.3 . But in my firewall I can still see loads of packets going out of the 192.168.0.1 interface. It seems only incoming traffic is routed to 192.168.0.3, not outgoing.

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I fetched a netstat for you guys:

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pm12server:~ # netstat -anp | grep amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:4712        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        196.203.88.136:2501     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        83.55.247.13:14715      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        87.18.74.203:3033       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        83.98.239.79:33505      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        79.181.121.45:52743     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  59040 192.168.0.1:59405       124.64.163.22:22061     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        67.166.125.183:1249     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        75.45.113.96:3496       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp    83220      0 192.168.0.3:6001        89.152.241.189:1536     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp   499830      0 192.168.0.1:34737       193.137.103.29:37193    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        121.30.64.129:6373      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  25920 192.168.0.3:6001        119.96.186.235:6470     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        85.250.31.131:3146      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0     18 192.168.0.3:6001        118.168.190.236:2218    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:35883       90.62.111.214:62252     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0    175 192.168.0.3:6001        221.137.173.202:64374   ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        66.60.28.106:1861       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        83.7.155.33:60096       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp    60628      0 192.168.0.3:6001        86.75.102.103:54763     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp   411847  40868 192.168.0.3:6001        87.205.167.207:4553     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        41.208.167.73:4353      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:33483       81.190.239.85:19079     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        190.55.38.52:1744       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp     1147      0 192.168.0.3:6001        89.131.192.172:63901    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        124.207.99.20:20123     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        203.97.48.237:59128     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:56261       213.96.125.25:20000     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        222.172.242.84:50239    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:34145       124.90.151.19:6641      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        201.13.129.148:52358    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        85.222.86.86:46902      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        123.240.156.129:2242    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:57135       78.106.143.133:57214    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        142.177.66.95:60240     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  17680 192.168.0.1:35734       77.49.195.153:55        ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  42904 192.168.0.1:35302       79.45.11.117:4662       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:50103       212.63.206.35:4242      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp      949      0 192.168.0.3:6001        83.37.6.235:1791        ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        88.66.153.75:62266      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        79.198.33.137:62719     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        76.171.254.111:4810     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:59550       67.240.237.63:4662      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  18720 192.168.0.1:42089       58.35.46.99:25113       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        201.172.25.81:64557     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  24684 192.168.0.3:6001        222.82.79.223:61698     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  42720 192.168.0.1:41206       60.241.54.67:31513      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  76340 192.168.0.3:6001        219.77.80.205:41953     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0    217 192.168.0.3:6001        77.127.1.161:3402       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  43800 192.168.0.3:6001        82.227.177.178:2313     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp    66095      0 192.168.0.3:6001        87.126.200.129:1723     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        58.252.165.115:1770     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        59.105.111.115:3336     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        86.15.187.250:33685     ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        84.137.128.14:1460      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0  27360 192.168.0.3:6001        58.247.194.160:34016    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        87.0.139.108:5000       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        80.1.104.160:2092       ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0    127 192.168.0.3:6001        86.76.207.116:3082      ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.1:48630       195.241.254.156:4662    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        90.196.224.204:61963    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6001        91.152.228.146:56139    ESTABLISHED 11683/amuled
udp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6002        0.0.0.0:*                           11683/amuled
udp        0      0 192.168.0.3:6004        0.0.0.0:*                           11683/amuled

The lines with 192.168.0.1 in them should not be there.

Shouldn't your two network interfaces be on different subnets, like 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.10.3 ? Also, .1 is usually reserved for the router, don't know if it has a special meaning.

I'm not sure, the 192.168.0.3 is just an alias. Should have mentioned it earlier, sorry about that. Anyway I set it up like this because I am trying to implement traffic shaping upstream. But the ports aMule uses are too random to set up any rules for.

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Some messages appear in the logfile I hadn't noticed before:

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 2008-12-15 04:40:09: CAUGHT DEAD SOCKET IN SENDPACKET()
 2008-12-15 04:57:30: CAUGHT DEAD SOCKET IN SENDPACKET()
 2008-12-15 05:41:17: CAUGHT DEAD SOCKET IN SENDPACKET()
 2008-12-15 07:40:15: Created Client UDP-Socket at port 6002
 2008-12-15 11:57:28: CAUGHT DEAD SOCKET IN SENDPACKET()

About the router, that's just the default configuration they usually have. I set it to 192.168.0.2

Actually it doesn't seem to work at all anymore now. All traffic goes through the 192.168.0.1 interface. Can anyone tell me if this option is supposed to do what I want it to do?

AFAIK the setting influences only the address for listening.

Binding means aMule will LISTEN only on the specified interface. However, outgoing packet routing is handled by the kernel. To make all packets produced by aMule go through a specific interface, you'll have to edit the routing rules. One way to do it is with a recent version of iptables, see the 'owner' match and the 'ROUTE' target.

I'm breaking my head over this iptables thing and I must admit I've postponed learning about it time after time. I simply don't know how to get started. I installed an openSUSE 11.1 test box specially for this to experiment some. Does openSUSE even use iptables?

Quote from: woutermense on December 22, 2008, 11:44:51 AM

Does openSUSE even use iptables?

Expect a whole lot of head-breaking. Google is your friend.

Quote from: woutermense on December 22, 2008, 11:44:51 AM

Does openSUSE even use iptables?

It does, but the recommended (official?) way is to go to yast2->security and users->Firewall. There you can go to Allowed Services and click on Advanced. Create a new service, e.g. ED2K, and specify the proper ports, both TCP and UDP. Then select it in the "Service to Allow" tab and click "Add". That should do the trick.

I personally do not do this, I am used to have a script to tweak the tables myself, but the reason beeing that I do that since long before there has been a nice GUI to do the job. Also, I am not so fond of GUIs :P

Cheers!

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