Hello Forum,

I'm terribly sorry if this problem has already been delt with here, but i'm pretty desperate.
I've spoken to someone at my routers helpdesk, and with his help I managed to open TCP port 5555. I now have hi ID on my ed2k server. I wish I could say the same about the UDP port 5565. (those are the ports I have opened in my router. (Thomson speedtouch 510) The port test fails on udp.
I have Windows XP. I'm with Planet Internet. I have Emule vo.46c. Under Napt entries I have entered the following.
TCP: Inside IP adress: 10.0.0.150. Internal and external port 5555 and a template for outside IP adress.
UDP: Same for port 5565. These are the ports I have entered in preferences/connections. Internal firewall turned off.

The TCP is fine but the UDP is not

I hope I gave you enough information.

Thanx,

Miss Fying
p.s. I'm dutch so sorry for the spelling

Maybe it's just the test that is failing.

Can you connect to Kad network with Open status?

Hi Niclights,

no, my kad connecttion says its "firewalled" but i've switched the internal firewall of. As far as I know it's the only firewall I have. On the router I have now tried to add a tcp for the same port (5565) so now there is a tcp and a udp for the same port. But that is no good either. I've just removed it again.

B.t.w. I also opened tcp port 4711. Isn't that one for the web-interface?

Like I said: I also tried to put my ip adress where it says "default sever". It now says none. According to the guy form the routers helpdesk, filling in the ip adres as a default sever should open all the ports, but even then the kad arrow is and remains yellow. (the ed2k arrow is green)

Thank you verry much for your time and patience.

love,

Miss(Petra)Fying

Just to cover all our bases here, did you make sure that you had any Contacts under the Kad tab? If not, hit the Bootstrap button after you've connected to a server. HTH.

Hi Paco Bell,

Well the moment I'm connected tot kad, the bootstrap buttun turns grey, so i guess you mean before connecting to kad. I've tried it with "known client" but the arrow still turns yellow. If I want to use the other option, what IP adress and port should I use?

Anyway: thanks again.

love,

Miss(Petra)Fying

oops, forgot to say that, yes there is a list under contacts. They all have either a yellow, orange or red light. I suppose we want them to turn green.

love,

Miss(Petra)Fying

You really only use that option when you have prior knowledge of a client running Kademlia, say your online friend. Otherwise, it's better to just let Kademlia either bootstrap itself eventually or manually via known clients.

Yes, most of them should turn green after a couple hours. The colors more or less give you an indicator of each contact's reliability/uptime on the network. So, you seem to be able to bootstrap okay. I can only conclude that there is something misconfigured on your network. Double check your port forwardings and make sure that both rules correspond with the IP address of your machine (type 'ipconfig' in a command prompt window if you're unsure). While you're at it, could you check if you have either a static private IP address on your machine or some sort of static DHCP lease/reservation/entry in your router? If you don't have either one, your private IP address may change when the DHCP lease expires, possibly invalidating your forwarding rules. HTH.

Hi Paco Bell,

As far as I know, yes, i do have a static IP adress. Someone at this forum keeps flashing it at me. According tot the dos-box my ip is 10.0.0.150. But the IP the guy flashes at me starts with 84.82.xxx.xxx. Probably a stupid question, but what is the difference? And if this where the problem, wouldn't I have the same problem with my TCP. I've used exactly the same paramaters for both the TCP and UDP "napt entry". Inside IP: 10.0.0.150, outside IP: template: 0.0.0.0, In case of TCP port 5555 and UDP port 5565. (oh plus tcp for 4711).

So why does my tpc rule work but my udp not?. In other words my eD2k connection is fine, but my kad connection remains firewalled. (on the server page where it says my kad is firewalled it says it uses port 5565 (the one i installed as UDP port, I therefore asume Kad uses the UDP port?)

If I keep running Emule like this, will I get into trouble for using to much bandwith? (or smth) I wouldn't want to inconveniance (oops, spelling?) anyone.

Tanks very much again.

Love,

Miss(Petra)Fying

Sorry I forgot to mention the following:

In my routerpage under diagnostics, under the heading "WAN" it says smth about ip connectivity. There it says the following:

ping adress: 195.190.250.7
Ping adress description: Remote peer IP adress (DNS was not reachable).

But again, if this was the problem wouldn't this also affect my TCP?

Am extremely grateful .

Love,

Miss(Petra)Fying

The 84.82.x.x is your public/WAN IP address while the 10.x.x.x is your private/LAN IP address. The private addresses stay behind your router and are not directly reachable on the public Internet. They have to go through your router first, hence the need for "Network Address Port Translation" (NAPT) the forwarding rules.

Yeah, Kademlia uses UDP. So does the server callback mechanism, apparently. Anyway, the only other reason I can see for Kademlia failing is that you have another program somewhere that's running on the same port. Barring that, I'd say there's something really screwy going on at your ISP's end. Try changing that UDP port number and the associated forwarding rule as an experiment.

Like what? Sounds like normal usage, so far. You'd only get in trouble if you were sharing a connection with someone else and hogging all the bandwidth, methinks.

I'm not exactly sure what that address is supposed to be. It's not responding to an ICMP ping I set just now. I'm guessing it might have been your first hop router or DNS server. In any case, it shouldn't have any bearing on eMule, since you seem to be communicating okay right now.

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Ugh, leave out one forward slash and look what a mess everything turns into
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Well, The Miracle has happened

One day I looked at the arrows for my connection, and they had both turned green! So now my Kadmelia is open as well! I didn't do anything! Appart from what I had done bofore, but before it hadn't worked. I don't know if you guys had anything to do with it, but thanks anyway

One other thing:

I have some problems to deal with in my life (don't we all) Information is often the key to unravveling (oops, spelling) a problem.

What I'm trying to say is this: Emule is an extreme enrichment of my life and I can not thank the people enough that made it a reality!

I'm just curious. When you set up port forwarding, did you actually do a port forward or did you do a port trigger? The latter tends to react slowly, in my experience, and should never be used if you can do a proper forward instead.

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Oh yeah, in the future if you ever seen your Kademlia status as Firewalled, you should hit the "Recheck firewall" button shortly afterward to make sure the status gets updated in the GUI. Sometimes that doesn't happen for whatever reason.
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Hi Paco Bell,

As far as I know I forwarded them. Under "napt entries". Maybe I accidently pressed the "recheck firewall" button. Either way: it works!

Thanx again from a very grateful Emule-user!

Love,

Miss(Petra)Fying