Re: [Help-gnunet] udp traffic on port 65535

[Christian Grothoff]

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Port 65535 is also used for fragmented packets. I kind of doubt that you've 
really got a kernel bug. What's the MTU of your network? How did you get the 
portnumber?

Christian

On Monday 19 August 2002 06:49 am, Peter Presslein wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 6. August 2002 04:23 schrieb Christian Grothoff:
>
> Hello again :-)
>
> > > since i installed gnunet 0.4.4 i have a lot of udp traffic
> > > on port 65535 going outside to other nodes.
> >
> > The UDP port to send traffic out on is chosen mostly at random by the
> > kernel (GNUnet does as far as I recall not specify that 2086 should be
> > used for outbound traffic).
>
> The problem with udp traffic on port 65535 is that kernel 2.2.18
> does not allow it. It's a kernel bug, and i haven't found anything
> to solve this problem. Is it possible to make gnunetd to use the
> ports 1024-65354 only? (for other 2.2.18 users and me :-)
>
> It seems, that gnunetd forces the use of free ports from higher
> to lower ports. With a random search for free ports the problem
> with port 65535 wouldn't happen so often, i think.
>
> The problem is still the same with gnunet-0.4.5. And - as others
> wrote - there is no connect with 0.4.5 to other hosts.
>
> [ ] I want to update my server to a newer kernel
> [ ] I want to have a look into the sources of gnunet
> [X] I want to use gnunet
>
> ;-)
>
> regards
>
>   Peter
>
>
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