Greg Wooledge wrote: > Ephrim Khong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [...] >> I had some some 15 connections after browsing through some sites, when >> suddenly one connection after the other closed down until none was left. >> My traffic monitor didn't indicate any traffic, and I (think I) know that >> the SOCKS proxy closes connections that were idle for some time. > > Then your proxy might be exacerbating the problems that NAT are > causing. In any case, it looks like using Freenet will be a pretty > miserable experience for you with the current codebase. > > But I still don't understand how you are actually *using* SOCKS5 in the > context of Freenet. Are you sure you aren't simply using NAT? (E.g., > if you turn off the NAT and leave only the SOCKS5 proxy, does Freenet > work at all for keys that aren't already in your data store?)
I'm not sure what you mean with "turning off the NAT". I am part of the "munic scientific network (MWN), basically a large LAN that connects scientific institutions in munic. I have a valid LAN-IP for that network. The MWN is connectet to the german scientific network. The only way for me to contact the internet is through a proxy (HTTP, FTP, SOCKS and some other wired protokols). There is AFAIK no NAT-Software involved at all. I start freenet through the SocksCap Program (see URL in tha last Msg). Here is a description from their site: "SocksCapTM automatically enables Windows-based TCP and UDP networking client applications to traverse a SOCKS firewall. SocksCap intercepts the networking calls from WinSock applications and redirects them through the SOCKS server without modification to the orginal applications or to the operating system software or drivers." So, my node is able to contact the Web through the Proxy, while the Web cannot contact my node. Everything works fine this far, since I can use freenet. Unfortunately, it seems like the SOCKS-Proxy is closing connections where no data was send through for some time (my IRC client, for example, gets disconnected frequently). I don't know how long it takes, it probably depends on the load of the proxy or the mood of their admin. So, sometimes when freenet is ideling for some minutes (searching for a certain key or whatever), the connections to other nodes are closed. So my question: Is there a way to send small "ping" packages through all opened connections where no data was send for x minutes? eph _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
