Jim, Thanks for the help, but I don't think it's the client. My version of mIRC is current, and we saw the same problem with trying to connect with Xchat from the actual server machine. I dumped the ircd that came with SuSE and substituted uircd that I compiled myself. I'll find out tomorrow if that made any difference or not, when the number of users goes over 40 (or not). If it does work, and I get the time, I'll probably look at the SRPM that generated the SuSE version to see if the MAXCONNECTIONS parm was set to 40.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Tison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with ircd Mark, Judging from the error code, it looks like it's coming from the windoze client. I think that 10054 error is from the post-NT version of Winsock -- might I suggest a later version of mirc? I foggily recall getting them when I switched over to W2K from NT (and then promptly retired from irc network administration). Khaled has probably found the root of that 10054 by now. Going back to my ircd days (a while ago now), there are many things in the ircd.conf file that have to be balanced: not just the Y line, but I lines (and P lines, if you have them) ... they all work together. There is also a MAX_CONNECTIONS (or some such silliness) in the config.h file that has to be properly set before you compile the ircd. To be frank, there are about a zillion versions of ircd out there, and I haven't seen the one that is showing up on the S/390 distros. Each has its own quirks, and they're all quirky. One ircd that I worked with for a while even had a booby trap in the config.h file so that "clueless" admins couldn't compile servers that would handle more than a handful of users! Ah, the agony of ircd server administration all comes back to me now (been there, done that, no more!). --Jim-- James S. Tison Senior Software Engineer TPF Laboratory / Architecture IBM Corporation +1 203 486-2835 (voice/fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m> cc: Sent by: Linux on Subject: Problems with ircd 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> 01/30/2002 13:04 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port I've got a geographically dispersed group of people that want to use Linux/390 for an irc server to facilitate realtime problem collaboration. (Yeah, Intel might have been a better choice, but hey...) I set it up for them using the ircd that comes with SuSE 7.0, and everything seemed to be fine, until more people started using it. Just today, people started seeing this when they tried to connect: [12:58] *** [10054] Connection reset by peer - [12:58] *** Disconnected If someone disconnects, then another person can connect, but not otherwise. When I do a netstat from an ssh session, I see a total of 40 connections to port 6667. An irc /list command shows a total of 83 or so channel "members." I checked my Y-line in /etc/ircd/ircd.conf, and it has this: Y:14:90::950:512000:3.3:3.3 Supposedly, the 950 number is the maximum number of connections the server will accept, so we're nowhere near that. Does anyone have any idea what might be the knob I need to tweak? Mark Post
