mldonkey & user ppp : security problem ?

[Gianmarco]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 07:50, Gianmarco wrote:
> Hi all.
> I have a strange problem, which is summarize in the subj.
>
> I am trying to use mldonkey-core program on a box 4.9-RC (soon 4.9-stable)
> which is my adsl gateway with user PPP and PPPoE.
>

Now it is 4.9-STABLE ...

> It is an Epia 5000 (533 mhz) and I have used both the nic (rl0 and vr0) on
> the PPP interface without any differences for the problem solving.
>
> After a while (~10minutes) mldonkey runs, it freeze my ppp connection,
> exausting all the mbufs on the tun0 interface, I presume, and so I am
> unable to have the ppp session continue. The only way to start again is to
> kill the process and then restart.

I have not solved the problem yet, but I think this should be noted (and 
hopefully fixed :-) by the security officer because with the default config 
it installed/created it can be used to create a DOS with a normal user 
access.

My user PPP, even if I tried to reduce the number of connections, add 
options NMBCLUSTERS=16384 
to my kernel continues to fails after a period depending on the number of 
connections and the file shared you have ...

Any idea/tips ?

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Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco