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muleman

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Connecting to server tuning help, please
« on: February 06, 2004, 08:51:32 AM »
Hello!

First I must say that aMule works fine for me. I use Fedora Core 1 with 2.6.x kernel and I have compiled wx-stuff and aMule myself.

Only problem I have is that when I start aMule and it tries to connect to some servers it has a hard time connecting to one: it tries, gives up very fast and tries another. Often it says I'm connected and then I'm immediately disconnected. Why?

I almost never get into the same large servers that I can use with my Win eMule. Instead aMule eventually gets me into some small.bad ping, low usercount server accross the globe - not very efficent ;)
I know my high priority servers are not full because if I boot Win and try eMule I can get into the very same servers aMule failed getting into. eMule seems to try connecting much longer and so it finally gets in.

So, I ask is there any settings that could affet the connecing to server behaviour? I would like aMule to be more persistent when trying to connect to a server, especially high priority ones.

thanks if you read this far,
MuleMan
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Re: Connecting to server tuning help, please
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2004, 09:31:00 AM »
hi,
have you tryed telling amule in the server window by hand "connect to that server"
I had the same problem the first time I used amule

try sorting your serverlist by current users,
then mark the biggest ones and
right click on connect to that servers

that worked for me
stefanero :)
« Last Edit: February 06, 2004, 09:31:37 AM by stefanero »
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Re: Connecting to server tuning help, please
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2004, 02:07:34 PM »
Thanks, I think I tried manual connect as well but I'm gonna try it again today to be sure.

Maybe I even go ahead and delete all the small servers which I don't wanna use...
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RE: Connecting to server tuning help, please
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2004, 10:37:29 PM »
hi;

I had the same problem and it disappeared as soon as I enabled incoming connexions on port 4662 on my firewall.

I suggest you take a look at linux masquerade HOWTO or firewall HOWTO

on my system it looks like this :

in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4

# Allow forwarding of new and existing port 4662 connections
#
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF -p tcp --dport 4662 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

good luck
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Re: Connecting to server tuning help, please
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2004, 10:45:27 PM »
hiya,

u need at least 1 TCP port and 2 UDP ..

tcp and udp from your prefs + 2nd udp which is tcp+3

greets
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