Bit Torrent tcp connection over-run
 

I suspect this issue relates to the way I've set-up the router (limiting number of connections on the inbound NAT to my torrent port), but has anyone had issues with an XP stack running out of available sockets when running bit torrent?

Event viewer tells me to go look for malicous apps creating lots of SYN_SENT's, and I suspect the return packet confirming negotiation is being blocked by the router. It's only happened once, and I can't do anything interactive as OS freezes when it happens (tcp stack falls over, basically). I'll need to set up logging to capture it if it becomes persistent.

Best would be to limit the number of connections overall within the BT client, but I don't see anywhere to set this up? But I haven't checked on each torrent yet to see whether I can limit things - is this the more normal place to do so?

Thanks, Richard

Not using that client so haven't seen any falling over but check out point 5 in this thread:
http://forums.torrentspy.com/showthread.php?t=24378

Helped my dl average to average about 140K with peaks at 200+ from average 30k odd before

if you use bitcomet, you can specifiy the number of connections in the preferences

Thanks!

Ooops - I'm using the uTorrent client. Doesn't seemt o be configurable for tcp connections....time to look at bitcomet.

Doh - found the setting in uTorrent.