Firewall Troubles

[Spikesoldier]

I want to do one of these. I really do. But I'm not going to comprimise my occupation so I will leave the machines at work they way they are - Now, I have a Linksys Cable/DSL router at home, and 3 Computers begging to do some work. How can I get past the Hardware firewall? Is there a mirror program availble?

 

[Fingers]

I do Seti@Home and have a netgearRT314 router that has a hardware firewall and have no troubles at all. I have also run the the UD client and the Dnet client in the past and have not experienced any troubles either. Just download the program that you want to run cough cough seti. excuse me. what was I saying, oh yeah, download the client and start it up and you should be fine. You should find links to everything you need in the welcom thread at the top of the page. If you experience any problems after that just post your symptoms here. Good luck and welcome to the team.

 

[kmmatney]

I have a LinkSys cable router and @home, and have no trouble with any of the projects. Is there a project in particular that is giving you trouble, or are you just wondering in advance? The ECCp project doesn't really "need" an internet connection, so you could give that one a try. Your rigs look like they would be great for SETI, however.

Kevin

 

[Spikesoldier]

Yes, after some trial & error, server is down, try later crap, I managed to get in and join team anandtech. Work Unit #1 4% of SETI@home completed... im gonna edit my sig

 

[Spikesoldier]

why do my rigs seem best for seti@home? do intel processors do better than AMD's in this scenario?

 

[Fingers]

The more cache the better, and that Xeon that that you have will be great for seti. I see you kinda like dells and P4's are also good at seti as long as they are coupled with fast ram (RDram) but i think they will also do well with DDR. Athlons are also good at seti. And P3's are fair. Seti requirs a lot of memory bandwidth and even better it loves cache. The more the better. Ive seen people who are experimenting with overclocking get better results with faster FSB and lower clock speed than faster clock speed and lower FSB.

 

[Spikesoldier]

I wish. Not on the work machine. If I had the money I would buy a whole room of 1U rackmounts.

 

[kmmatney]

<< why do my rigs seem best for seti@home? do intel processors do better than AMD's in this scenario? >>



In general, most of the projects just require a fast floating point, so Athlons/Durons usually rule. SETI, however, seems to work best with good memory and Cache performace, which is what the Xeons have. Athlon XPs are awesome at SETI (and everything else!).

If you are only using your home systems, then SETI will be fine, but each work unit will take a while to complete. Your using the client version of SETI (with something like SetiSpy to log your progress), right?

I think we'd all like a rack of 1U systems

 

[IsOs]

Spikesoldier, are you having problem using SETI with your Linksys router? If you post specific questions, we will try to help you. I just got my hands on a Linksys Wireless Router. I haven't figured out how to set it not to use DHCP & take local IP. But SETI Driver and SETI Q works fine

 

[Smoke]

Is0s,

You go into DHCP and DISABLE.

Then you will have to manually assign each machine its own IP ADDRESS.

That is done by going to your LOCAL AREA CONNECTION PROPERTIES and entering the IP address such as 192.168.1.103 w/Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 and default gateway: 192.168.1.1

Look on your router's STATUS page and copy the DNS numbers and place those in the lower section of the LOCAL AREA CONNECTION PROPERTIES.

Repeat for each computer on your LAN.

24/7 help is available 800-326-7114 which may be the best way to go.

 

[Spikesoldier]

So would a P3 Tualitin with 512KB of cache and on something like an Iwill DVD-266u-RN (Dual p3 with DDR memory) nessesarily perform better than my p3 1Ghz?

 

[IsOs]

Spikesoldier, the 512kb cache will have a better SETI times than a P3 with only 256kb cache.

Smokeball, thanks. I tried them earlier but somehow didn't work. So I went back enabling DHCP. I'll try them again this weekend.

 

[MrFluffy]

The Tualitin cored P3's performe the best in SETI (for the MGz).
an 800MGz (for example) can avarage 5-6 hours per WU (Talk to Ray for confermation)