Re: Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:56:11PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: I've recently begun running a torrent client after hours on a PC sitting behind our firewall (7.2-STABLE using pf). I have added a 'rdr' rule to redirect incoming traffic to the client PC from the firewall, and as far as the

Re: Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
My apologies all, This was clearly not intended for this list :-) - Thanks - - Dave Rivers - Is there a main() function in your program? Are you building this for LE operation, or with the Systems/C runtime? If it's Systems/C, are you using the RENT library (and the

Re: Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-25 Thread Emil Mikulic
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:56:11PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: However, after a short period of torrent activity, the machine running the firewall becomes extremely slow and lagged for all network traffic, but appears to be operating fine locally. Remote connections via ssh become

Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
I've recently begun running a torrent client after hours on a PC sitting behind our firewall (7.2-STABLE using pf). I have added a 'rdr' rule to redirect incoming traffic to the client PC from the firewall, and as far as the client is concerned everything is fine. However, after a short

Re: Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter C. Lai
If only a reboot solves the problem sounds like a kernel problem? mbuf leakage? On 2009-07-24 04:56:11PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: I've recently begun running a torrent client after hours on a PC sitting behind our firewall (7.2-STABLE using pf). I have added a 'rdr' rule to redirect

Re: Torrent clients bring pf-based firewall to its knees...?

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Is there a main() function in your program? Are you building this for LE operation, or with the Systems/C runtime? If it's Systems/C, are you using the RENT library (and the -frent option on the compilation?) If you want to build a non-RENT program for USS, you can, but you have to set the