From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 14:02:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A0316AB1B for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from matrix.teledomenet.gr (dns1.teledomenet.gr [213.142.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1934543D5A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:02:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from iris ([192.168.1.71]) by matrix.teledomenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k51E2nEY007873; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:02:49 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:58:13 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <447DF7B5.6090507@swehack.se> <44ejy9rpbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <447EEBE5.80905@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <447EEBE5.80905@swehack.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606011658.14160.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: nocturnal Subject: Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:03:02 -0000 On Thursday 01 June 2006 16:30, nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > One thing i should have mentioned is that this only happens with > rtorrent. For example i can transfer in 10Mbit+(not much plus) from > work, where i have no bandwidth restriction, for hours without problems. > Using scp, i have not tried with ftp and very large files. When i > transfer large files from work with scp i can maintain a speed of > 10Mbit+ for long periods of times without problems. This problem has > only happened because of rtorrent using a lot of bandwidth. And as i > said earlier it happens when using less bandwidth to. Is you computer behing a dsl modem/router which does NAT? Sometimes modem/routers cannot handle the number of connections torrents do and die. And most of the time you cannot have a clue, everything will look normal, but it won't do NAT. Also, what do mean when you say "net dies"? Do you mean internet dies or your LAN dies? > > > > Med vänliga hälsningar > > Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal > [Swehack] http://swehack.se > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > nocturnal writes: > >> Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug > >> because i honestly don't have time for those things. > >> > >> I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special > >> requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer > >> in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent > >> 0.4.5 - > >> libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My > >> friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems > >> in the latest development versions, he only started using them > >> today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when > >> rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around > >> 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity > >> of 1Mbit but got the same problem. > >> > >> This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can > >> be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a > >> special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this > >> but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has > >> done. > >> > >> Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this > >> happened. > >> > >> I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the > >> exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. > > > > Do you have good NICs? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"