TCP Dropped as requested - How can i alleviate this?

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:36 am

Ok.. here is the deal. If I start Kaid using the WRT commander and start Kai on Xbox it works fine. I have input the mac for my xbox and my PC so I can use UI on either one. At first it wouldn't find the engine but I put my username / pw in the kaid.conf and now it starts but it keeps saying TCP dropped as requested scrolling by really fast. When this happens it doesn't ping anyone to see what their connection is. I believe it was set to not allow for security reasons by the person who created the kaid.conf file for running on WRT. What do you guys think?

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:25 pm

I don't know that this will affect your trouble at all, but you don't need to specify the PC MAC address to use the UI on the PC. Specify only Console MAC addresses on that line.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:46 pm

Well I thought that I had to specify any mac addresses. Well I can remove the mac address for the pc and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:13 pm

I specify only my XBOX MAC in my kaid.conf (with learning mode on manual) and I use the UI on a couple different PCs without issue.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:55 pm

Hmm, learning mode? I don't think I know what that is.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:16 pm

In the kaid.conf file there is a section as shown below:

# MacLearningMode : Tells the engine how it should learn about your console(s).
# There's still the old, legacy mode: Manual, where you should enter you
# console(s) mac address(es) under ConsoleMacs.
# New options are: Auto and FirstFound.
# * Auto: Using this mode, each and every packet on your network is
# sniffed and analyzed by Kai Engine. Those who come from remote hosts
# are tagged using a mac cache mechanism and passed to the Ethernet
# frame handler. Inside that handler, if ether src doesn't correspond
# to any of the remote mac addresses, engine assumes its local and adds
# to local device cache. Keeps doing it for the engine lifetime, and
# behaves the same way all the times it runs. Uses more CPU than any
# other mode (Except FirstRun that behaves in the same way for the first
# time it runs).
# This mode allow you to use any number of consoles.
# * FirstFound: Now, this one is tricky and maybe the most balanced option for
# those using only one console. The engine will behave in auto mode until 1
# *ONE* local device is found. After that point, the pcap sniffer is restarted
# using that mac adddress as pre-filter. All this happens in real time, no
# restart is needed. No fs cache file is used, and it will behave like this
# everytime it runs. After the device is found, the engine will behave exactly
# like Manual mode. This mode will have the same CPU load until it finds a
# local device. Will be very fast if you already had your console turned on.
# * Manual: Finally, Manual mode. This legacy mode should be used whenever
# performance is an issue. You'll have to specify your console(s) mac address(es)
# yourself. No processing is done for sniffed packet besides sending to
# remotes. This is the Turbo Boost Mode.
MacLearningMode = Manual
IgnoreMacs =

# *** If using MacLearningMode = Manual, make sure to use this option ***
# ConsoleMacs : You can and should specify your console(s) mac address(es)
# here. They'll be used as pcap filters reducing CPU load
# processing each packet. It will also avoid sniffing
# incoming/injected packets to be caught. Format must be
# standard tcpdump format: Ex.: 00:ff:dd:5b:31:ac
# You can specify more than one mac address in a ; separated
# list. Will be parsed and "OR'ed" in filter. List should end
# with ";" or last element will be discarded.
ConsoleMacs = 00:50:f2:XX:XX:XX;

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:36 pm

I was looking at my kaid.conf file and I don't have an section for IgnoreMacs ... mine says IgnoreTCP = 1 . Which means it is going to ignore TCP, i guess.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:42 am

I would say you are not using the latest kaid.conf (and possible not the latest kaid binary since why would you just update one of the files?) as that option is gone in the newest release. You can tell your kaid version by starting with the -V switch like:

Code:

./tmp/kaid -V

It should report back "7004" for the latest kaid.

My kaid.conf is below (note my SniffDevice = vlan0 since I have a WRT54GS):

Code:

Verbosity = 0
UIBind = :34522
OrbPort = 34525
EngineBind = :0
EnginePAT = 0
SniffDevice = vlan0
MacLearningMode = Manual
IgnoreMacs =
ConsoleMacs = 00:50:f2:XX:XX:XX;
ConfigURL = www.teamxlink.co.uk/connector/clientgetconfig.php
Username = TaskMaster
Password = whyintheworldwouldyouwantmypassword
AutoLogin = 1
XBoxHomebrew = 0

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:19 pm

Yup I have older version.. I have version '7003'. I know there was an update that came out for the WRT54GS, but I thought that was only the engine/ui for running on the PC. Where do I get the newer version. Do I even need it since I am running an WRT54G ? Its worth a try.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:24 pm

Yes you do need it. You can get it from the download link on the main page or just go here: http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/pre/kaid4_linuxmips.zip.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:08 pm

Cool, I got it last week and installed it. I haven't tried running the UI on pc yet but I did run the UI using MediaCenter and it connected. I noticed that on my router it doesn't scroll all this stuff by really fast anymore like it did with the previous version of Kai. Once I get an chance ill test the UI on pc without first starting on Xbox and see if it works. Thanks for the help man. Your the only person who ever replied to this.