If the requests are: 1) From many different IP addresses 2) Small UDP packets 3) To the destination port(s) the games are running on
it should be fine. When some one opens the in game browser a udp "status" packet is send to each server in the list. Since you are running 6 servers on a box every user will send 6 requests to you and the boxes will respond. Though 16 gigs a day conflicts with the 120kbs rate. At 120kbs you should see about 1.3 gigs of traffic a day. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds] Much traffic, no players?! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hi there all, I have the following problem: I got 6 cs servers on a dual amd , load is good, running linux kernel 2.6.8. When i look in hlsw, i got timeouts of 20 secs every 15 secs. When i look at my traffic, the box is doing +- 120 kb/s with no players online. The timeouts in HLSW i fixed with the max_queries_sec, max_queries_sec_global & the max_queries_window (6.0 / 60 / 120)commands but the traffic doesn't go away, it does +- 16 gig's a day, and nobody is playing on the servers. All the servers have a standard config. nothing special. When i look at my tcpdump, then i see many, many requests to the cs servers. example: "16:38:52.479694 IP masked.1890 > masked.27015: UDP, length: 11 I reinstalled the boxes yesterday,gave the servers new ip numbers, and after +- 12 hours, its starting again. The servers are completly updated. They are all running slackware 10.0, with kernel 2.6.8. If the servers are turned off, still there is communication between the box and all kind of ip numbers. Its all hlds related: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# tcpdump -i eth0 udp >> logfile01 3164 packets captured 3164 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat logfile01 |wc -l 3165 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# /usr/local/bin/ifstat -i eth0 eth0 KB/s in KB/s out 16.57 16.28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# Another strange thing is, to make sure slackware 10 & kernel 2.6 isnt the problem, is that a box that was running redhat 9, with a 2.4 kernel, was having the same problems. By the way, other servers in the same ip range, and on the same switch, are not having this problems! http://83.98.146.100/hlsw-traffic.jpg Kinds regards and thanks in advance for the reply's! Michel PS: Sorry if you guys receive this mail 2 times. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
