Pong fun diagnostics!
 

Well, thanks to LimeWire 2.8.5 I get a new whole section of statistics to help me with any issuse I have. Yeah! Now, anyone want to help me optimize this puppy?

Running 2.8.5, behind a NAT box. The NAT box forwards TCP and UDP messages to the LimeWire machine. Just as a side note, I'm pretty sure that outbound connections also get NAT'ed with a source port other than 6346 (iptables different rules). Now, I'm looking at my stats. The largest packet type by far and away are pong messages. Now, under routing errors, I also get a huge number of pong errors. First, a stat question: Are the general pong stats both errors and successes? If so, 95% or so of my pongs are errors, which is dismal. Second, what causes such a large number of pong errors?

Also, I'm both forwarding and listening to UDP messages on 6346, and I get absoultely no packet activity over UDP, no matter what host type I'm connected to.

Always willing to play with my host and firewall, as usual. Tweaking assistance greatly appreciated.

Re: Pong fun diagnostics!
 

Searches will use UDP but the client end of this method is still in development.