Hello RaaF, hello javier__d,

which phex distribution do you use, binary or source? On phex 0.7 there was a problem with the binary distribution, maybe also on phex 0.7.3? I've never used the binary distribution.

I use Win98, I've changed some registry entries to allow more TCP connections, I never tried phex with less than 32 (8 is default). The key is: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTr ans\xxxx\Ndi\MaxInstance, where xxxx is a Number and ...\NetTrans\xxxx\DriverDesc is "TCP/IP".

Furthermore, I use the Hummingbird socks client generally, so I never used the phex buildin socks support.

Maybe one of these points helps you.

Helge

Hi

I'm on Linux using binary distribution for j2re 1.3. And now that you've mentioned the number of connections I have tried to increase number of connections (in phex) from 7 to 20 and have come to following.

A try to make an outgoing connection should be dropped after some timeout value. Mostly I see this happend with an error message "Error. Timeout while opening socket.". But some of tries to connect last much longer without beeing successfull. As the other connections drop after some time, this "BAD" tries to connect move upwards in my connections list and eventually fill all allowed connection slots and stay there. So phex doesn't try to make any new outgoing connections.
When these tries are removed manually phex starts to work fine (till it's not stuck with this tries again).

And still the problem with too short connections. Maximum time I see connection to hold is about 10 minutes.

And one more question: I have several connections (Incomming) from the same IP. Is it ok? Is it normal?

Thanx that You care.

Javier

This happens also to me, but more unfrequent (one in four hours or so) so this is not really a problem.

Either your IP connection doesn't allow persistent connections (perform a test with other programs) or other clients apply their disconnect policies (too many dropped packets etc), what is your TTL?

Same port? If not maybe a proxy connection.

Helge

Well, it is really a problem for me since it's 5 in 1 hour. Why phex tries longer than timeout for some IP's?

Javier
 

I think the IP connection stucks at an earlier point, before initialisation of the timeout. Maybe this depends on Java. You can search for and file a bug report at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phex

Helge

It's not the same port. All connections from the same IP have the same 'vendor' and 'shared' entries and connect to my client together. This time it's 5 incomming connections of LIMEWIRE 2.3.3. I don't remember if there were also other vendors with multiple connections from the same IP.

Javier

Hello Javier,

have you tried putting the IP into the Phex Ignored Hosts list?

Helge

No. Why should I do that? I'd just like to know, what it is. Or is it something 'really BAD'? :-)

Javier

I had a lot of old phex files around and did a cleanup and reinstalled 073
Should have thought of that before :o
073 is running perfect now !

Hi phexers.

I've just had wonderfull 3 hours with phex. Just like the old times. All connections holding, downloading ok, uploading ok. After these three hours it all simply got back to the 'BADBAD' state again. This was the first time of everything running as espected for me since 0.6.3. And I didn't do anything for it. It just worked. I don't know why. And I don't know why it doesn't work now.

:o Does anyone have any idea?

Javier