Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ eMule Plus 1.1 suddenly goes LowID

[xalbux]

I've been using eMule Plus 1.1 since end of October 2004.

Had no problems so far.
But since last week it goes to LowID after several hours/days.

There's not much to say about possible causes.
I haven't changed the system since months. And so the router.

Somehow eMule Plus stops listening to the TCP port.
When I try to scan the incoming tcp port I get no answer.

Regards

[SyruS]

does the emule-pc have a static ip config?

[muleteer]

Many ISPs have a backup link in case the regular one fails temporarily. Sometimes this backup link needs p2p clients to be reconfigured. Or you could wait it out; the old setup will work wen the regular link is restored.

[xalbux]

The computer has a LAN IP: 192.168.x.x
The ports are forwarded by a router.
Whenever the problem occurs all other forwardings in the router are still working.

[muleteer]

Check your IP here when your connection is working properly and compare it with when it gives trouble.
http://www.stilllistener.com/checkpoint1/
Or do a trace route from your pc to list which IP addresses are used in the hops between you and a site. I still think I'm on the right track here.

[xalbux]

Oops, E did it again :-)

Router is still working.
I have another P2P application running in the background and its port is still reported as open. I have used 'shields up' from www.grc.com to probe my ports.
eMule Plus port is reported as closed but eMule plus is still running and transferring.

I also checked my IP with Your link, nuleteer.
It identifies the same IP the router is claiming to have as external IP.
I also checked with checkip.dyndns.org. All are reporting the same IP.

I also made a tracert.
hop nr.1 is the LAN IP of the router
hop n.r2 is an IP that has nothing in common with the external IP. It's in a different subnet. Just the IP netstat can't resolve any IP belonging to that IP.
hop nr.3+4 are probably equipment of my ISP, The reverses namelookup reveals my ISP's namen. but these two are quite similar to hop. nr.2.

[SyruS]

I have another P2P application running in the background

u always used to run both? how many connections is it probably using?

[xalbux]

No, I usually only run eMule Plus.
This time I had a torrent running in addition, with only few connections used. Only 7 torrent clients are involved in that download.

I just mentioned the second P2P programm because that one is still listening on its port while eMule stopped listening.

[JamesD]

Mine did this just a couple days ago. I had to log out of WindowsXP and log back in to get it to work again... but it did start working again.

[muleteer]

At the command prompt type netstat -a and 'enter' and see if any other app is using that port.

[xalbux]

I can't tell about the time eMule went into Low ID 'mode'.
But closing eMule Plus and restarting gives immediatly a High ID.If there was another application using that port, it's not active anymore. But I don't really think this is the cause.

[SyruS]

does it also happen if no bittorrent is running at the same time?
did u tweak any windows tcp-settings?
or maybe have a short ttl for nat-table in router?

[DonGato]

I sometimes (when doing intensive upload tasks, like running other p2p concurrently) have to decrease upload a lot for both of them to have High ID. That might be your case.

[velasco]

Hi,

I have been experiencing the same kind of problem, after some length of time, usually 3 or 4 days, emule just stops listening connections.

Restarting emule fixes the issue so I believe it´s not a misconfiguration problem.

I don´t run any other p2p concurrently with emule.


I have WinXPPro sp2, athlon1400, 512mb.



cheers.

[Cirno]

Same problem here. But the only thing that helped me was to get back to an older version before 1.1