Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread knitti
On 1/15/08, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i doubt it's your machine not being happy with number of connections - i routinely have hundreds of states. depends on your modem, maybe? or who made the board inside your modems? or what crack-addled rhesus monkey pretended to write the

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/14 19:40, johan beisser wrote: The hardware is a slightly loaded Soekris net4501 with 64mb of RAM running OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC). This will handle much more traffic if you upgrade to 4.2.

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/01/14 19:40, johan beisser wrote: The hardware is a slightly loaded Soekris net4501 with 64mb of RAM running OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC). This will handle much more traffic if you upgrade to 4.2. I thought the performance improvement

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/15 09:13, johan beisser wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/01/14 19:40, johan beisser wrote: The hardware is a slightly loaded Soekris net4501 with 64mb of RAM running OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC). This will handle much more traffic if you upgrade to

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 09:13:02 -0800, johan beisser wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: This will handle much more traffic if you upgrade to 4.2. I thought the performance improvement came from 4.1 with the removal of per packet interrupts. The closest

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-15 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: I thought the performance improvement came from 4.1 with the removal of per packet interrupts. http://www.openbsd.org/42.html Huge performance improvements in the network stack, including: # In pf, store routing table ID, queue ID etc

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
to confirm) and let us know if that works on your end as well? --MHC On Jan 5, 2008 1:22 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any suggested PF setup when using BitTorrent? Right now, the biggest problem I have when using BitTorrent is watchdog timeouts. Thanks, Brian

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 14, 2008 4:06 PM, Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, After your post (and several others), I tried BitTorrent out on my network (sparc64 router + DOCSIS 2.0 cable connection; see http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=120019379210857w=2) After some experimentation, I was able

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Max Hayden Chiz
On Jan 14, 2008 6:30 PM, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My theory is that you're using a ... uh... well, not very good connection that bogs down easily. My connection normally works fine; even when I max out my 7Mb/512Kb line. Running BitTorrent (even with a fraction of the bandwidth)

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 14, 2008 5:00 PM, Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cause the latency issue. By contrast if I limit the number of connections, BitTorrent can consume almost all of the bandwidth and the issue will not appear. Perhaps this problem is specific to my configuration (or specific to

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Brian
--- Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps this problem is specific to my configuration (or specific to DOCSIS cable modems). But if it makes Brian (or someone else's problem) go away, then it is likely that this problem is not unique. --MHC Let me read through the

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 14, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Brian wrote: --- Max Hayden Chiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps this problem is specific to my configuration (or specific to DOCSIS cable modems). But if it makes Brian (or someone else's problem) go away, then it is likely that this problem is not unique.

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/06 17:50, Brian wrote: --- Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent client with a different network card? I have run into

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-07 Thread Brian
--- Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/01/06 17:50, Brian wrote: --- Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-06 Thread Brian
--- Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent client with a different network card? I have run into the same issue with my onboard nic card,

Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-05 Thread Brian
Is there any suggested PF setup when using BitTorrent? Right now, the biggest problem I have when using BitTorrent is watchdog timeouts. Thanks, Brian Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-05 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent client with a different network card? On Jan 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any suggested PF setup when using BitTorrent

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-05 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent client with a different network card? On Jan 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any suggested PF setup when using BitTorrent? Right now, the biggest problem I have when using BitTorrent is watchdog timeouts

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe those watchdog timeouts have nothing to do with bittorrent, and are probably more related to nic problems. Have you tried running your torrent client with a different network card? On Jan 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any suggested PF setup