TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent (incomplete) TCP connect attempts.?

Question

Dear All,

When itry to connect limewire it doesnt work i tried to un/reinstall nothin works when i opened the Eventviwer i found a Warning on id 4226(yellow Triangel).

i scanned for possible viruses or malwares or..... but the pc is clean everything is running well exept the P2P share programs and here is the error message

Details

Product: Windows Operating System

ID: 4226

Source: Tcpip

Version: 5.2

Symbolic Name: EVENT_TCPIP_TCP_CONNECT_LIMIT_REACHED

Message: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent (incomplete) TCP connect attempts.

Kindly, help me if you know whats wrong and whts is the solution.

Answer 1

Well here is a "FIX" but it has an expense side to it. Your machine will become more vunerable to some trojans and viruses.  P2P carries lots of risks!

http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-vista-f...

The "patch" allows you to increase the 10 connection limit in XP or the 2 limit in Vista!

Good Luck

Answer 2

think about it, if it had it would have been all over the net.

What that sounds like to me is that your ISP has a limit or there is a gateway limit for the number of uses going through a server.

Most but not all use DHCP to give you an IP address it there block reaches there limit this would happen.

Answer 3

TracyL is right, XP from SP2 and now Vista have a low limit on concurrent connections, which seriously hampers P2P activities.  Although this lowers the usefulness of file sharing technologies, the theory goes that Microsoft was actually only trying to reduce the effect of worm viruses.  As Tracy points out, you can "hack" the configuration of TCP/IP, at your own risk.  Consider though whether that is worth doing.

Let's assume for this part that we are all using Limewire for legal sharing.  I would say that I haven't seen this occur with Limewire when using it to search for and download files, with little or no incoming activity (me not sharing many files the other way), so it might result more from how much outward sharing you do, how many users are coming in to receive from you, and this can be tuned in the Limewire options.  Don't let people just run away with your bandwidth.