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djwoody

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Unable To Get High ID or Connect Through KAD
« on: November 28, 2006, 06:19:48 PM »

I have been booting into Windows and using eMule on my Mac but decidecd to give aMule a try in OSX. All my ports are forwarded correctly as eMule works fine. On the Mac I cannot get a high ID no matter what I do.
Also, I cannot find a list of Kad servers and on the Kad page the CONNECT button is 'greyed' out so I cannot connect. The default node.dat list gives me "The URL http://download.overnet2000.de/nodes.dat returned: 404 - Error (6)!" when I try to download it. Searching the net has not come up with a suitable alternative.

Anyone any ideas ?????

Thanks
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Re: Unable To Get High ID or Connect Through KAD
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2006, 06:33:39 AM »

Maybe your Mac is getting a different local IP from your router when it runs OS X than when it runs Windows.

See my canned port forwarding reply:

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You need to forward the ports that aMule uses in your router. Take a look at http://portforward.com/routers.htm, that page has detailed step-by-step instructions for pretty much every router on the market.

aMule uses three ports (see Preferences->Connection) that need to be forwarded:
  • a client TCP port
  • a client UDP port (this is the above port +3)
  • and an eMule extended UDP port
Also, if you are running any firewall software (e.g., OS X's built-in firewall, which you can control via System Preferences->Sharing->Firewall) on your computer, you need to open the above ports there as well.

You can use the connection tester to check whether the client TCP port can be reached from the outside, that is, whether it is forwarded properly in your router and not blocked by any firewall software.

Good luck. :)


Concerning kad: once you sucessfully get sources from an ed2k server, you should have enough kad clients (there are no kad servers) that you won't need to download a nodes.dat file.
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djwoody

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Re: Unable To Get High ID or Connect Through KAD
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2006, 11:23:06 AM »

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Originally posted by lionel77
Maybe your Mac is getting a different local IP from your router when it runs OS X than when it runs Windows.

See my canned port forwarding reply:

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You need to forward the ports that aMule uses in your router. Take a look at http://portforward.com/routers.htm, that page has detailed step-by-step instructions for pretty much every router on the market.

aMule uses three ports (see Preferences->Connection) that need to be forwarded:
  • a client TCP port
  • a client UDP port (this is the above port +3)
  • and an eMule extended UDP port
Also, if you are running any firewall software (e.g., OS X's built-in firewall, which you can control via System Preferences->Sharing->Firewall) on your computer, you need to open the above ports there as well.

You can use the connection tester to check whether the client TCP port can be reached from the outside, that is, whether it is forwarded properly in your router and not blocked by any firewall software.

Good luck. :)


Concerning kad: once you sucessfully get sources from an ed2k server, you should have enough kad clients (there are no kad servers) that you won't need to download a nodes.dat file.



Thanks, but I have done all this originally and still no luck. My IP address in Windows and OSX is the same. If this does change I just need to change the IP in my router to which the ports are fowarded and it works. I have switched off my OSX firewall and still no joy.

Think I'll go back to the Windows version !!!!!
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Re: Unable To Get High ID or Connect Through KAD
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2006, 06:45:02 AM »

Say, what does the connection tester report (see my first post)? Does it say that the tcp port is reachable?
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