Re: [Mldonkey-users] emules rank positions

[fr1end4u]

Christian Loitsch wrote:


> I am downloading a rare file and have only 3 sources.  With all of them
> I start at position over 100 (sometimes even over 1000), come down to 5
> or even less, and the next time I look I am back at over 100.

First of all: If all of the following is complete BS, please tell me. 
But perhaps it may be of some help.

I observed the same thing. Looking at the emule sources, i found that, 
if a client reaches the top position in the queue and isn't actually 
connected, emule does a "callback" and sends an unrequested 
AvailableSlotReq. I wondered if MLDonkey can handle this and captured 
this callback using ethereal. And to me, it really looks like MLDonkey 
terminated the connection as soon as it receives the unexpected 
AvailableSlotReq. So emule doesn't start uploading...

To be sure, i captured this three times, and it seems that this always 
ends up the way i described above.

What i captured can be found here (in libpcap format, captured using 
ethereal 0.9.7):

http://www.productive-networks.de/emule-callback.tar.gz

What do you think?

Regards
fr1end4u