Connections limited to 9 for no reason #566

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2013-11-18T10:15:46+01:00

AyrA commented

2013-11-18 10:15:46 +01:00

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I just saw, that under windows, you are limited to 9 outgoing connections. This may make sense for systems with Windows XP SP2 (or newer) and Vista SP1 (and older). But not for all other Windows versions.
Therefore I provide a piece of code to detect, if the current version is affected by the TCP half-open limit. Please include in bitmessagemain.py and set the connection count to 9 if it returns True, otherwise set it to 200 and you will get almost instant connection to the network.

import platform,sys
from distutils.version import StrictVersion

def isTcpLimited():
    VER_THIS=StrictVersion(platform.version())
    if sys.platform[0:3]=="win":
        return StrictVersion("5.1.2600")<VER_THIS and StrictVersion("6.0.6000")>VER_THIS
    return False

I just saw, that under windows, you are limited to 9 outgoing connections. This may make sense for systems with Windows XP SP2 (or newer) and Vista SP1 (and older). But not for all other Windows versions. Therefore I provide a piece of code to detect, if the current version is affected by the TCP half-open limit. Please include in `bitmessagemain.py` and set the connection count to 9 if it returns `True`, otherwise set it to 200 and you will get almost instant connection to the network. ``` python import platform,sys from distutils.version import StrictVersion def isTcpLimited(): VER_THIS=StrictVersion(platform.version()) if sys.platform[0:3]=="win": return StrictVersion("5.1.2600")<VER_THIS and StrictVersion("6.0.6000")>VER_THIS return False ```

subscribernamegoeshere commented

2013-11-18 10:29:03 +01:00

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I dont have any trouble. I am on WinXP. Users shouldnt be running on ancient outdated systems let alone not even latest Service Packs on the Microsoft Platform.

AyrA commented

2013-11-18 21:12:30 +01:00

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if you are running on XP SP2 or SP3, you are affected by the "maximum 10 half open connections limit"

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