Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Zach]

As of breezy, there are no iptables rules configured by default, so
there shouldn't be any problem with any service attempting to listen
on any port.

Many NAT routers have a stateful firewall in addition to their NAT
functionality.  I'm assuming that when you say "On my router, I have
opened the ports 4662 TCP, 4672 UDP", you mean not just configuring
the router's firewall to allow incoming traffic on those ports, but
also actually forwarding the ports to the appropriate internal IP?  Do
you use DHCP?  Is it possible that your machine's IP is changing, or
not what you thought?

Perhaps the the "client is too old" error is related afterall.  Where
did you get your mldonkey?  From one of Ubuntu's repositories, or a
third party?  Are you running breezy?  If it's not a matter of the
ports being forwarded properly, then perhaps the edonkey protocol has
changed, and out of date clients are being penalized.  However other
posters indicated they are running mldonkey from Ubuntu universe and
are not having problems.

These two possibilities notwithstanding, I can't guess what the
problem could be.  Personally, I'm not that familiar with mldonkey.

One other suggestion would be to give amule a try.  I'm fairly certain
it's in Universe or Multiverse.

On 2/1/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> Zach wrote:
>
> >Your performance will suffer significantly with a low id ...you need to forward
> >the ports that your client is configured to use.  Generally this is
> >4662 TCP & 4672 UDP,
> >
> I have only one computer, and it accesses the net via a router connected
> to a fibre optic modem. On my router, I have opened the ports 4662 TCP,
> 4672 UDP, and 6346 TCP and UDP (for Gnutella networks).
> I had done this since the beginning.
>
> Yet I still see the "lowid" error.
>
> Is there some kind of firewall or port blocking in Ubuntu/Linux that I
> need to open as well?
>
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