also, if it's not the firewall, it may be that you're connecting to fake servers. razorback and the donkey servers are good. servers like sonny boy are run by feds, riaa, mpaa, and other evil entities in order to make ur downloading a little less easy (by having fake sources and stuff). and actually, an ip filter should be used too (to filter out evil entity sources that purposely give u parts of files that take forever to complete afterwards), but unfortunately, the linux edonkey clients don't support it. (you can read about these things in www.fucktheinter.net for example).
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shlomo Solomon > Sent: Wed, October 19, 2005 11:07 AM > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Subject: ed2k and firewall > > > Hi, > > I've been trying to setup ed2k (edonkey) without much > success. I should say > that the program does work, but is unbelievably slow - I'm > trying to download > some 300 Mb files and after about a week, only between 5 to > 20 Mb of each > file have arrived. I assume my problem is related to the FW. > Note the 8th > line in the status report included below. I've tryied > "playing" with iptables > to allow port 4662, but am obviously doing something wrong. I > do know that > the fact that edonkey claims the firewall is blocking sharing > does noot > always mean that is the case. But, I tested my firewall on ShieldsUp > (http://www.grc.com/default.htm) and 4662 does show up as > **stealth**. In > fact, the strange thing is that even if I disable my firewall > completely, I > get the saame result (in ed2k AND in ShieldsUp). > > My system is MDK10.1 with all updated packages (except for > original kernel - > never updated) and I'm running iptables. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ rpm -q ed2k-gtk-gui > ed2k-gtk-gui-0.6.3-1plf > > > Please let me know what other info would be helpful. > > > **** here's the status report **** > > 19 Oct, 10.30.01h GUI: auto-spawn: no local core running, > we need to spawn > one. > 19 Oct, 10.30.01h GUI: auto-spawn: core binary needs to be > version 1.0 or > newer. > 19 Oct, 10.30.01h Can't auto-connect - no local core > version >= 1.0 running > it seems. > 19 Oct, 10.30.13h Started core. > 19 Oct, 10.30.32h Connecting to locally running core > (/home/solomon/tmp/.mm-auth-cookie-4662) > 19 Oct, 10.30.33h GUI: we are CONNECTED to the core. Logging in... > 19 Oct, 10.30.33h GUI: we are LOGGED IN to the core. Enjoy. > 19 Oct, 10.30.34h ID: ffae67c85df5d84475fa47d6cd327669 (firewalled) > 19 Oct, 10.30.34h GUI: This seems to be an OVERNET core. > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *********************************************************************************** This email message and any attachments thereto are intended only for use by the addressee(s) named above, and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original message. *********************************************************************************** ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]