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[dummkopf]

Hello folks,

I was in need of a certain musical piece, so I installed aMule. After some struggle I found that particular file and I'm happy now.  
However, I didn't remove the aMule from my PC yet. This entire thing (p2p community) sparked some interest of mine. Now I wonder:

1. I see something like that "Clients in queue 3 (1 Banned)". Is this banned guy denied access to my spool? And, there are currently only two uploaders, why these 3 have to wait?

2. What is the meaning of priority for my shared files? What's the meaning of "Release"? What exectly I have to do to share a new file? How it works? Is my filelist sent to some server or what?

3. What if there happens to be a file with questionable copyright in my PC  8o ? I downloaded and installed ipfilter.dat, 87228 IP addresses are now allegedly blocked. How serious is this anyway?

4. I run a little headless gray box as my home gateway/firewall. Is there a CLI client for FreeBSD, if yes how is it best managed from my desktop?

Thanks for patience, I believe these questions are answered here or elsewhere. My brief googling didn't give me all the answers though.

[stefanero]

heyho

first of all we have a wiki page for most questions
so if you have problems with the interface maybe check there first
http://wiki.amule.org

1.)
clients in queue are the guys downloading from ya aswell as the once which have to wait.
so you have 2uploaders, and 1 banned == 3 poeple in queue

also with slot-allocation in preferences you can tweak the amount of poeple you upload to a little.

a client gets banned when he missbehaves, in any way, there is a logic behind it but I wont explain that...

2.)
the priority is the order on "which file to upload first" say you share 5 files, the file with the highes prioriy will get shared the most.
release function is something like "super high" priority, if you set a file release this file will get the most bandwith over all the other.

3.)
well if you have/download copyrighted files thats your problem. IPFilter.dat will not help here. since you never know where the bad guys are
IPFilter.dat is most just to block known IP-ranges from companies which spread corrupt data.

4.)
command line client is --> amulecmd
you can enable it with --enable-amulecmd,
there is also a webserver enable compilation with --enable-amuleweb
for setup read http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Webserver

stefanero

[Kry]

Originally posted by stefanero

4.)
command line client is --> amulecmd
you can enable it with --enable-amulecmd,
there is also a webserver enable compilation with --enable-amuleweb
for setup read http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Webserver

stefanero

More like:

daemon client: amuled
CLI interface to amuled: amulecmd
Other options: amuleweb (webserver), amulegui (Remote Gui)

[dummkopf]

Thanks for your reply.

first of all we have a wiki page for most questions
so if you have problems with the interface maybe check there first
http://wiki.amule.org

Yeah, I have been there, didn't read all of it...

clients in queue are the guys downloading from ya aswell as the once which have to wait.
so you have 2uploaders, and 1 banned == 3 poeple in queue

Are you sure? Right now I have 1 in queue and six are actually uploading.  ?(

release function is something like "super high" priority, if you set a file release this file will get the most bandwith over all the other.

Good... but why my files I've put there do not show up in a search engine?

well if you have/download copyrighted files thats your problem. IPFilter.dat will not help here. since you never know where the bad guys are  

Is there a list of countries where aMule shouldn't be used?

--
a little smarter now, but (still) dummkopf

[GonoszTopi]

Originally posted by stefanero
1.)
clients in queue are the guys downloading from ya aswell as the once which have to wait.
so you have 2uploaders, and 1 banned == 3 poeple in queue

Wrong. 2 clients have upload slot assigned + 3 client waiting for an upload slot + 1 banned client = 6 clients  

but why my files I've put there do not show up in a search engine?

I think that the server doesn't give you back your own files on a search... but I might be wrong.

Is there a list of countries where aMule shouldn't be used?

Nope.

[dummkopf]

Thanks GonoszTopi.

One more question: there are comments in "Time Remaining" column, what's the meaning of them?
Source Exchange - this is self-explanatory
Server -
Passive -

Guess where I got drunk last time? ... Eger  

[GonoszTopi]

Source Exchange -- This source was aquired via source exchange from another client
Server -- This source was aquired from the server
Kad -- Same with Kad
Link -- This source was in the sources section of an ed2k link you added
Passive -- This client connected to us, wanted a file that we want too, and we saw that he has some parts that we don't have.

Guess where I got drunk last time? ... Eger

Nice place, good wines.  

[dummkopf]

Well, just one more question (oh man, I feel like lieutenant Colombo):

I was waiting in some other guy's queue, and my QR was dropping all the time (closing to 0) and suddenly there was QR:3788(3780) in red. What did I wrong? It looks like I was kicked, right?

[GonoszTopi]

Maybe he tried to connect you unsuccesfully, maybe he closed his app for a minute or so, but there isn't anything like "being kicked".

[dummkopf]

Aber, one can edit the sources and include such a function. I wasn't very precise, this seems to happen always with a certain fella, I've observed it to happen at least three times. I wonder how many "custom-built" aMules are out there...?

Edit. Tthis last question is rhetorical. End of thread as far as I am concerned.