> I decided to contribute my server towards the project. I have set up
> the software, and seemed to work fine. I forwarded UDP port 123 to
> my server and the server management system seemed happy with my
> server. Then my server got a score over 5, my internet access slowed
> down greatly, so much that it was barely usable. I tried to log onto
> my router which is a Buffalo WBMR-G54 but the interface was very very
> slow loading. I looked up in the logs, and I saw something like
> "table full. Dropped packet" and "Last message repeated 288 times"
> over and over again.
There shouldn't be a table filling up; that indicates a suboptimal
configuration.
Make sure that when your NTP server replies the router is *not* keeping
state for these reply packets; there's simply no need.
> I tried to reboot the router, which fixed the
> problem temporarily. The problem occurred again after a couple
> minutes, and checked the logs, which showed the same. I disabled
> port forwarding for port 123 and rebooted the router. No problem,
> everything worked fine. I decided to test it again, enabled port
> forwarding on port 123 and the problem returned. I do still want to
> contribute to the project, but not if my router can't handle all the
> packets? I've never seen this before, and I've used P2P a lot in the
> past without any problems.
>
> What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix this problem?
Hopefully you can reconfigure your router not to keep unnecessary state.
Failing that, perhaps you should put your NTP service on or in front of
your firewall.
Cheers,
- Joel
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