Switch to vanilla kernel has made networking awry

Carlos

Recently I compiled a kernel from the vanilla sources instead of the Gentoo sources in the hopes of getting copy protection support under WineX to work properly. The vanilla kernel seems to have done the trick, but right after I did that I've found that I'm unable to connect to the gnutella network with qtella: all connects give me an error. However, most of the rest of the internet seems to work fine: I can browse the net and chat with gaim. I think my inability to connect to Battle.net with Warcraft 3 and Starcraft may have something to do with this as well. Is there any possibility that a kernel option that I may have forgotten to set could be the culprit? If not, what could be?

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Don't know if it is related, but I'm having connect problems with qtella and gtk-gnutella as well (and I'm running gentoo-sources).
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Carlos · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:08 am Post subject: It wasn't the kernel

Oddly enough, I booted from my old kernel, tried gnut, and it couldn't connect either. The strange part, though, is that I can connect to gnutella servers with my laptop running Win98SE using Gnucleus. Until I tried the experiment with my laptop I thought maybe my ISP had pumped up the firewalls, but apparently that's not the problem.

phong · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:31 am Post subject:

There seems to be something strange going on in the gnutella network - lots of qtella and limewire (and probably other) users are unable to connect at all, while some clients are doing fine! I noticed a lot of recent posts in the various gnutella forums dated over the past week or so with the same errors I'm having. WEIRD!
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I'm running LimeWire over here (linux version of course) version 2.4.4 and I'm able to connect. I read these posts and thought I'd try because I've been using gtk-gnutella mostly as of late.

Carlos · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 3:50 am Post subject: Stranger still

I tried a clean install of Slackware 8.0 on a different partition, just because it's an old copy of a binary distro, compiled mutella under it, and it couldn't connect either. So presumably something must have happened to the network, since in the past I was able to connect from that environment, and yet my Windows laptop can still connect...

I've been checking out the fora at Gnutella Forums, and people seem to be having the same problems with other clients too.