But there actually is some communication. From what I gather amuleWEB is ok but it's the EC component of amuled (and amule for that matter) that's screwed... Is that correct?
playground:~# tcpdump -ntvi eth0 | grep 4712
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 50965, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 40) 172.16.32.42.1365 > 172.16.32.253.4712: F [tcp sum ok] 2742359292:2742359292(0) ack 384643285 win 65535
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 57334, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 40) 172.16.32.253.4712 > 172.16.32.42.1365: F [tcp sum ok] 1:1(0) ack 1 win 6432
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 50966, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 40) 172.16.32.42.1365 > 172.16.32.253.4712: . [tcp sum ok] ack 2 win 65535
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 50983, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 48) 172.16.32.42.1395 > 172.16.32.253.4712: S [tcp sum ok] 3801684527:3801684527(0) win 65535
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 48) 172.16.32.253.4712 > 172.16.32.42.1395: S [tcp sum ok] 1070212150:1070212150(0) ack 3801684528 win 5840
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 50984, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 40) 172.16.32.42.1395 > 172.16.32.253.4712: . [tcp sum ok] ack 1 win 65535
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 50985, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 450) 172.16.32.42.1395 > 172.16.32.253.4712: P 1:411(410) ack 1 win 65535
IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 1496, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 40) 172.16.32.253.4712 > 172.16.32.42.1395: . [tcp sum ok] ack 411 win 6432