Also the small home routers can't handle more then 600 or so connections. Once the NAT tables fill you stop receiving list data (You don't stop receiving it but you can't ping the servers or query them) If you want to good firewall and you have a spare PC you really should check this out. Its FREE :) http://www.endian.com/en/community/about/ One of the best firewalls I have seen
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Fri, 14 Mar > 2008 20:25:02 -0700> Subject: Re: [hlds] Blacklist> > Hmm...maybe you should > qualify that statement. "Cheap low end crap" home > routers can cause > this....> > Re: My adventures in cheap low end crap home routers from...5 > years ago? How > many people on this list were there back then (yeah, yeah, I > know some of > you were)? Back when I was playing with Belkin, dLink, > Linksys, Cisco, and > Netgear. Some rocket scientist at Netgear decided that > the routing table did > not need to be > 1024 entries, which is perfect for > doing nothing more then > browsing the Internet and reading email. Anything > else and you start to > experience dropped connections, and blocked incoming > connections. I was > running an opennap server at the time, and everytime I > hit ~975 connections, > it would stall and no more incoming connections would > make it. I replaced it > with a lowly WRT54G, and I was able to slam it up to > 5000 connections with > no problems. Yet the geniuses at Linksys *still* > don't think anyone wants > static IP assignments.> > Come to think of > it...most home routers *are* "cheap low end crap" > routers....> > > </soapbox>> > :-)> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Ottalini" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" > > <[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 8:07 PM> Subject: > Re: [hlds] Blacklist> > > > Home routers can cause this if your Steam rate is > set too high.> >> > Try setting the steam > settings > connection speed to > something low and > > see> > if your server counts become more stable.> >> > > You must exit and restart Steam for the speed change to take effect.> >> >> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Armstrong"> > To: "'Half-Life > dedicated Win32 server mailing list'"> > <[email protected]>> > > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 7:32 PM> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Blacklist> >> >> > >>I repeatedly get different server counts each time I refresh the server> >> > list.> >>> >> Without fail.> >>> >> - Andrew> >>> >> -----Original > Message-----> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of "[??R]> >> The-/<iller"> >> Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2008 11:33 AM> > >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list> >> Subject: Re: [hlds] > Blacklist> >>> >> I was getting drastically different numbers everytime i > refreshed the> >> serverlist for about 2 hours seems to be fine now.> >>> >> > Cc2iscooL wrote:> >>> I'm pretty sure Valve haven't delisted anyone yet, as > the server count > >>> on> >>> the internet tab from yesterday is about the > same as today.> >>>> >>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM, "[??R] > The-/<iller"> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >>> wrote:> >>>> >>>> >>>> Now one > shows up sometimes on the custom tab, other times when i > >>>> refresh> >>>> > the custom tab im only getting like 10 servers. They are on consecutive> >>>> > ips.> >>>>> >>>> Steve wrote:> >>>>> >>>>> Were all your servers using the > same public IP?> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
