Re: [Mldonkey-users] Running multiple instances

[kami petersen]

Bruno Saverio Delbono wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
>
> > We are 4 people living together and want to run mldonkey 4 times on our
> > Debian router/firewall. One instance for each one of us.
in theory, yes, but you're asking for trouble... you can live together 
but not share a daemon? we do. this is actually one of the things that 
mldonkey was made for, if i recall correctly.

> I wouldn't suggest it as your firewall would choke trying maintain all 
> the state connections. Instead, run 


are there firewalls that can't even cope a few thousand states or so? 
from my packet filter (OpenBSD/PF) docs:

"a 486/66 with a pair of good ISA NICs could filter and NAT close to 5Mbps"

and

"32MB should be plenty for close to 30,000 states"

...but of course, if you're throwing four hungry mldonkeys at the poor 
box at the same time...

cheers,
kami