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mig70

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No connection - lowID - public IP
« on: May 31, 2005, 04:55:31 AM »
hello!

I'm running aMule under Fedora 3 in a university network, with a public IP.  I only have access to the configuration of this machine. Port 4662 is not usable in this network, and changing it produces results, although unexpected: after a while of "connecting to...", almost every  server gives an immediate "connection lost" or time out.  The only one I can connect to is the TLF Taiwan ED Server (140.123.108.139:7654). This happens with any TCP and UDP ports I've tried-- of course, following the udp=tcp+3 indication, plus the extended udp port (I also try disabling it every time). I'm behind iptables (managed with guarddog) with the ports properly enabled, and the test in http://www.amule.org/testport.php is always succesful with all ports tried.

I've tried the same TCP port I set for  Bittorrent, which behaves perfectly well (the most usual one is also blocked in this network), but to no avail.

Following the advise found, I've also tried SOCKS proxies, but I haven't found any that doesn't produce a lowID and null results (neither uploads nor downloads).

I seem to have exhausted all the reading material available, and the result is always the same: connection only with the aforementioned server, or lowIDs using proxies.  Am I missing something? Is TLF known to behave differently? Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

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Re: No connection - lowID - public IP
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2005, 06:25:38 AM »
mig70,

There is no way you are going to get a high ID while using proxies, sorry. But if you can connect using a proxy, you should be able to upload/donwload normally.

If your IP is public and you say http://www.amule.org/testport.php gives an Ok to you, you most probably have a configuration problem on your firewall. Maybe try disabling it for a test.

BTW, university admins usually do not like p2p programs running inside it. They are most probably sniffing the traffic and disabling ed2k/fasttrack/other p2p; you should try it at home before you get black listed (maybe this is the problem).

Cheers!
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Re: No connection - lowID - public IP
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2005, 01:39:44 AM »
phoenix,

I've tried disabling the firewall, changing the IP, etc. Blacklisting doesn't see to be the problem, either. I haven't tried leaving the LowID connection on for more than a couple hours, so I'll see if any upload or download gets strated-- seems like the only choice right now, aside from connecting to only one server.

Thanks for the pointers.  Salud!

-M
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