Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:13:47 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?! Message-ID: <44ejy9rpbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <447DF7B5.6090507@swehack.se> (nocturnal@swehack.se's message of "Wed, 31 May 2006 22:08:21 %2B0200") References: <447DF7B5.6090507@swehack.se>
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nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> writes: > Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug > because i honestly don't have time for those things. > > I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special > requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer > in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent > 0.4.5 - > libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My > friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems > in the latest development versions, he only started using them > today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when > rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around > 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity > of 1Mbit but got the same problem. > > This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can > be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a > special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this > but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has > done. > > Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. > > I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the > exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs?
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