increase your connection limit? search for "bittorrent" on this forum... you'll find dozens of people who had to make adjustments to settings so that they could run their p2p stuff. _________________ support DD-WRT and get great hosting!
You sure you don't have a virus or worm spreading proliferating from one of your systems?
This table is 512 members by default with DD-WRT and therefore fills up when there are 512 concurrent connections. Sometimes improperly closed TCP/IP connections can get stuck in here until the idle timeout is reached, but this shouldn't be happening to you.
It is very unlikely for a system doing 'normal' stuff and not P2P to have 512 concurrent connections. Very unlikely.
so true. I have 5 computers online now, and 3 Replay TV units, and an Xbox. Total connections = 240. And all devices are online and doing stuff. I have 30 tabs open in 3 instance of Firefox, for example... _________________ support DD-WRT and get great hosting!
But it is a larger home network, with 5 servers (including mail and 2 * www used by quite a few external users) and about 10 'inside the firewall' clients.
Also, the network management console itself probably adds quite a few connections across the router as it polls devices
My laptop alone has 60 firefox tabs open, so it's easy to see how I'd hit the 512 'wall'
Upping it to 4096 seems to have solved the large quantity of chatter at my network management console.
Shorten your timeouts too. Lower them to 500 at first, and if that does not eliminate the problem, lower them to something like 240.
That's the amount of time an inactive session can live. Anything under 200 and you run the risk of random connect/disconnect with AIM and MSN type clients.
