Network help required again.

[Stan_Lite]

Hi networking type gurus.

I'm having a little bit of bother with sending Folding results to Stanford and wondered if any of you guys could help me.

Here (http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic20301.html) is a link to the thread I posted on the Folding forums. If any of you have time, can you have a read and see if you can think of anything that may help?

Many thanks.

Stan :)

[Daz]

Run the commands 'ifconfig' and 'route' from the Linux box and paste the output here dude. Lets leave the Windows box(es) out of this for the moment, Linux will give you straight answers.

Confirm what Linux distro is on the box we're going to look at :)

For the Linux geeks - What's the best way to check if SELinux is installed/enabled? dmesg | grep -i selinux ? I never use it myself but I know its a default option on some distros.

[Stan_Lite]

As requested:

bigstan@Krusty:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:83:F1:BB
inet addr:192.168.2.7 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe83:f1bb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8191265 (7.8 MiB) TX bytes:42529444 (40.5 MiB)
Interrupt:169

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:547993083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:547993083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6027356502319 (5.4 TiB) TX bytes:6027356502319 (5.4 TiB)

bigstan@Krusty:~$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


This is from Krusty who is currently running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy).

Stan :)

[Daz]

From reading your other thread and looking at that, it smacks of something up on the router. You can reach the servers on 8080 from a web browser, but it doesn't like the folding application, or that's how it seems.

Now, this is perhaps not the greatest suggestion, but if it were me I'd setup a proxy (Squid) on the Linux box and point the folding clients through that. It wouldn't be too bad if you fancied it (apt-get install squid, and then some config edits). If it works then it's a valid work around, but it would also help indicate where the problem lies.

[Stan_Lite]

I was thinking the same - however, it seems strange that the M1710 has no problems connecting and all the rest have problems :huh:

The proxy idea sounds like something I would be interested in trying at some point but to be honest with you, at the moment, I'm so fed up with the whole thing that I'm thinking I'll take a break from Folding for a while - coupled with the fact that I have 3 PCs and 1 laptop (the quad is like a radiator) in a tiny bedroom which makes it very uncomfortable to be in there.

I'm thinking I'll take a break until the winter and use my PCs like normal people for a while. I haven't had a chance to play with Vista properly because of these problems and it doesn't look like there will be a quick fix (it's already been 5 days).

As I said, I would like to try the proxy idea sometime in the future but I may leave it until winter time when I need some heating in the room.

Thanks Daz.

Stan :)

[Daz]

No worries, hit me up when you want to look at Squid :)

[Mark]

Folding through squid works perfectly - it's the setup I use, though not for any networking issue.

Stan, if you want any more help let me know. I wouldn't blame you for giving it a rest though with the accommodation situation as it is.

PS - Daz - sestatus. :)

[Daz]

Noted for future use, ta :)