I've limited the amount of connections my node can make to 50. I don't know how this effects the network, how it effects my node's ability find files or anything, all I know is this keeps freenet from eating all of my system's resources. Please tell me if their is a better way.
Anyway, something I found interesting was: $ netstat | grep -c tcp 370 The vast majority of these connections HAVE to be related to freenet. I only run a couple of other services that access the net on this box. the "open connections" page shows that there are fifty connections, but netstat gives something different entirely. why is that? I could stop freenet to see how this figure changes, but I'm sure that i wouldn't drop anywhere near 370 connections. question number 2: "netstat | grep tcp" shows a grip of connections that don't use the port that I designated for incoming connections. The port numbers seem almost completely random. I assume that these are OUTGOING connections, and this is normal, but I just wanted to be sure. question number 3: when I update my seed refs from the website, where do these refs come from? from someone's node? question number 5: As my node "learns" more about the network, it "meets" a lot of other nodes. Does Fred automatically change seednodes.ref as time goes by? do I need to manually save all of these new refs? How can I do this? question number 6: I'm pretty new to freenet, and I really haven't been able to use it to retrieve very much yet. I get the impression that until recently, the network ran a lot smoother than it is now. one of the posts here seemed to say that If i ran freenet w/o the NG routing, things would run a little smoother. is this true? Is NGR really working? is there any evidence that it actually speeds things up yet? I know that's a lot of question, thanks for taking the time. -Steve _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support
