Just joined the RC5 team...

[MysticLlama]

Should have done this earlier but hadn't got around to it. But I added all the following last night, with some more in the office I hope to soon snag.

PIII-600@800 24/7
Dual PII-400 24/7
PII-400 24/7
PII-300 24/7
PIII-450 24/7

Hopefully it'll help a little, and I hope to get a few more going soon.

 

[Pyxis]

Welcome to Team AnandTech!

 

[Poof]

Welcome to TA and nice herd ya go there!!!

 

[RaySun2Be]

Welcome to Team Anandtech, MysticLlama!

Feel free to post any questions if you need help!

 

[Russ]

MysticLlama,

Welcome aboard! We love you, man! Not to worry, I don't even want your Bud Lite.

Russ, NCNE

 

[micron]

Welcome to the TeAm!

 

[Polo]

Welcome to the TeAm !

 

[MysticLlama]

It's going pretty well so far, but I seem to have intermittent connection errors getting to the proxy through the firewall, and end up doing OGR packets. Is it okay to just set the OGR=0, or do I just need to change something else?

 

[KGB]

\me adopts me favorite Monty Python voice.... Hey... Llama!!!

Wecome to the TeAm!!!!

 

[Jarhead]

MysticLlama,

Do me a small favor if you would, after work
stop off at Microsoft and assimilate them for
the TEAM.

 

[Viztech]

Welcome to TA ML!

As for the firewall, which proxy are you trying to use? Often we can get clients to break through firewalls using port 23 or port 80, and in the rarest cases use direct IP addresses and ports to a TA proxy to circumvent DNS issues. The Distributed Net clients are quite good at that.

I don't normally recommend using the OGR=0 setting, as we want your client to switch to OGR when RC5 is solved. Using the "per project buffer level exhaustion" setting will keep your primary project as RC5, keep from counting OGR rulers and running out of RC5 work.

It is often best to paste in your .ini file so we can help with the settings.

Nice herd, BTW.

viz

 

[MysticLlama]

Well, the basic problem is that every once in awhile I'm not able to flush/fetch, and it's set up to do it most of the time. But whenever that happens it'll switch to OGR and start doing that for a long time, I'm not sure why, it just seems to not connect to proxy.anandtech.com sometimes, almost like one of the boxes in the round robin doesn't like me.

It seems random, because I can have a problem on one box, while another is working just fine.
They work for the most part though.

Added a C400 yesterday too.

And I'll have to see if I can get ahold of any of my buddies to see if any of them are still at MS and see if they can set up a few machines for us

 

[Viztech]

Hmmmm, could be an Internet routing thing that doesn't work from your location to one of the proxies. This is not totally suprising because some of the 'baby bovine' TeAm proxies are not on the information super highway, but on the side streets.

I might suggest picking one the BBs listed at the TA status page (I use jator.2y.net) and see if your troubles go away. Do a tracert first to make sure that it is a fast and reliable connection. I believe that the new client (which is still beta) allows a backup proxy, but the good old 8010 clients do not have that function.

Good luck!

viz