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mikee55

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aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« on: May 06, 2008, 01:20:44 AM »
Hi, I use PCLinuxOS on my PC as  Host and share my internet connection with 2 XP PCs. I'm using 2 NICs, 1 for my connection to my Cable DSL Modem and the 2nd, shares the connection over LAN to my children's XP machines. As soon as I use aMule, they lose Internet, but not Network folder sharing? Any ideas, please?

Mike :)
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2008, 04:32:53 PM »
Most probably you're overloading your network. Reduce aMule bandwidth caps.
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2008, 10:07:11 PM »
 Hello lfroen, I've done that and still don't help. Dropped connection down ridiculously low and still they down surf???

Mike :)
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2008, 10:29:54 PM »
Please post the capabilities (up/down) of your internet connection, and all your settings in preferences/connection. The most important ones are "Bandwidth limits" and "connection limits".
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2008, 11:12:48 AM »
Hello sturedman
-bash-3.1# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:4F:5F:D8:46 
          inet addr:82.3.130.233  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::206:4fff:fe5f:d846/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:17526623 (16.7 MiB)  TX bytes:2433117 (2.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0x6000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:DB:4E:2F:AB 
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:dbff:fe4e:2fab/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:5485 (5.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xe600

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7060 (6.8 KiB)  TX bytes:7060 (6.8 KiB)
I'm using Virgin Media and the 2meg package.

Bandwidth limits download 6k, upload 2k slot 2k. Line caps download 6k, upload 3k. TCP 4662 UDP 4672. Max sources 300, max connections 99
 Advanced settings
Max new connections/5secs 20, Filebuffer 240000
Upload queue size 5000 clients

Hope this is enough info.

Mike:)
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2008, 11:49:13 AM »
Quote from: mikee55 on May 06, 2008, 01:20:44 AM
Hi, I use PCLinuxOS on my PC as  Host and share my internet connection with 2 XP PCs. I'm using 2 NICs, 1 for my connection to my Cable DSL Modem and the 2nd, shares the connection over LAN to my children's XP machines. As soon as I use aMule, they lose Internet, but not Network folder sharing? Any ideas, please?

Mike :)

Note, that you have quite unusual setup. Instead of connecting all your machines to one router, and this router to provider, you connecting one PC to provider, running nat and bridging the rest. Is there any particular reason to make such setup? You see, upload 2k should not affect your network. If it is - either your upload is not 2k or something wrong with your network.
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2008, 12:53:17 PM »
Hello lfroen, I'm running it this way because I've just bought a new car, and her indoors is expecting another baby, so cash is minimal. Plus, I was  on ADSL before DSL Cable, and I had a Router for that setup along with all the NICs, Cat5's and 5 port HUB. I picked up another NIC cheap, and ran Internet Connection Sharing when I was using XP and eMule, which ran fine. Now I've converted to Linux and aMule, I thought this setup would be fine, until I purchased a DSL Router.
So, sorry to be a pain. But I'm stuck with 2 NICs for now :)

Mike
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2008, 11:11:25 PM »
Quote from: mikee55 on May 07, 2008, 11:12:48 AM
I'm using Virgin Media and the 2meg package.
What ul/dl speed is in this package ?

Quote from: mikee55 on May 07, 2008, 11:12:48 AM
Bandwidth limits download 6k, upload 2k slot 2k. Line caps download 6k, upload 3k. TCP 4662 UDP 4672. Max sources 300, max connections 99
Nothing wrong with your setup (except that 6k dl is very slow).

Can't you config your old router to use your cable modem instead of the built-in DSL and use it instead ?
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Re: aMule on PCLOS prevents Internet sharing for XP
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2008, 10:42:24 AM »
You have to run some troubleshooting on your network:
* Does ping work?
* What is round trip times with and without aMule?
* Does DNS work?
* Maybe NAT gateway bridging packets to both interfaces and effectively flooding your bridge?
* Try to run Wireshark (former ethereal) on all machines and see what packet coming where
* Replace PCLinuxOS with better supported distribution like Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian
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