keep getting my ip blocked on the aeon pool

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hi guys,

i'm trying to run agains the STH pool, but for some reason my ip gets banned after about an hour.
i have a little test setup running 2 vms on esx, so it would really surprise me if thats enough power to trigger an ddos protection.

i am using xmr-cpu running on ubuntu vm's.

once i have this running properly, my company would like to use the config on a lot of esx hosts to recoup some of the dc costs, but so far it seems that my setup might be off.

does someone have a properly configured config.txt, so i can compair it to mine ?

thanks

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cperalt1

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Don't have a config.txt but what algorithm are you using. I came across this problem when I first started because I forgot to specify
cryptonight-lite . The miner was choosing cryptonight instead. Might be worth a look.
 
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looks like all result keep being rejected ...
so i guess it is a config.txt issue

here's the one i am using :

/*

* Thread configuration for each thread. Make sure it matches the number above.

* low_power_mode - This mode will double the cache usage, and double the single thread performance. It will

* consume much less power (as less cores are working), but will max out at around 80-85% of

* the maximum performance.

*

* no_prefetch - Some sytems can gain up to extra 5% here, but sometimes it will have no difference or make

* things slower.

*

* affine_to_cpu - This can be either false (no affinity), or the CPU core number. Note that on hyperthreading

* systems it is better to assign threads to physical cores. On Windows this usually means selecting

* even or odd numbered cpu numbers. For Linux it will be usually the lower CPU numbers, so for a 4

* physical core CPU you should select cpu numbers 0-3.

*

* On the first run the miner will look at your system and suggest a basic configuration that will work,

* you can try to tweak it from there to get the best performance.

*

* A filled out configuration should look like this:

* "cpu_threads_conf" :

* [

* { "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 0 },

* { "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 1 },

* ],

*/

"cpu_threads_conf" :

[

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 0 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 1 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 2 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 3 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 4 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 5 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 6 },

{ "low_power_mode" : true, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 7 },

],



/*

* LARGE PAGE SUPPORT

* Lare pages need a properly set up OS. It can be difficult if you are not used to systems administation,

* but the performace results are worth the trouble - you will get around 20% boost. Slow memory mode is

* meant as a backup, you won't get stellar results there. If you are running into trouble, especially

* on Windows, please read the common issues in the README.

*

* By default we will try to allocate large pages. This means you need to "Run As Administrator" on Windows.

* You need to edit your system's group policies to enable locking large pages. Here are the steps from MSDN

*

* 1. On the Start menu, click Run. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc.

* 2. On the Local Group Policy Editor console, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand Windows Settings.

* 3. Expand Security Settings, and then expand Local Policies.

* 4. Select the User Rights Assignment folder.

* 5. The policies will be displayed in the details pane.

* 6. In the pane, double-click Lock pages in memory.

* 7. In the Local Security Setting Lock pages in memory dialog box, click Add User or Group.

* 8. In the Select Users, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, add an account that you will run the miner on

* 9. Reboot for change to take effect.

*

* Windows also tends to fragment memory a lot. If you are running on a system with 4-8GB of RAM you might need

* to switch off all the auto-start applications and reboot to have a large enough chunk of contiguous memory.

*

* On Linux you will need to configure large page support "sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=128" and increase your

* ulimit -l. To do do this you need to add following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf - "* soft memlock 262144"

* and "* hard memlock 262144". You can also do it Windows-style and simply run-as-root, but this is NOT

* recommended for security reasons.

*

* Memory locking means that the kernel can't swap out the page to disk - something that is unlikey to happen on a

* command line system that isn't starved of memory. I haven't observed any difference on a CLI Linux system between

* locked and unlocked memory. If that is your setup see option "no_mlck".

*/



/*

* use_slow_memory defines our behaviour with regards to large pages. There are three possible options here:

* always - Don't even try to use large pages. Always use slow memory.

* warn - We will try to use large pages, but fall back to slow memory if that fails.

* no_mlck - This option is only relevant on Linux, where we can use large pages without locking memory.

* It will never use slow memory, but it won't attempt to mlock

* never - If we fail to allocate large pages we will print an error and exit.

*/

"use_slow_memory" : "warn",



/*

* NiceHash mode

* nicehash_nonce - Limit the noce to 3 bytes as required by nicehash. This cuts all the safety margins, and

* if a block isn't found within 30 minutes then you might run into nonce collisions. Number

* of threads in this mode is hard-limited to 32.

*/

"nicehash_nonce" : false,



/*

* Manual hardware AES override

*

* Some VMs don't report AES capability correctly. You can set this value to true to enforce hardware AES or

* to false to force disable AES or null to let the miner decide if AES is used.

*

* WARNING: setting this to true on a CPU that doesn't support hardware AES will crash the miner.

*/

"aes_override" : null,



/*

* TLS Settings

* If you need real security, make sure tls_secure_algo is enabled (otherwise MITM attack can downgrade encryption

* to trivially breakable stuff like DES and MD5), and verify the server's fingerprint through a trusted channel.

*

* use_tls - This option will make us connect using Transport Layer Security.

* tls_secure_algo - Use only secure algorithms. This will make us quit with an error if we can't negotiate a secure algo.

* tls_fingerprint - Server's SHA256 fingerprint. If this string is non-empty then we will check the server's cert against it.

*/

"use_tls" : false,

"tls_secure_algo" : true,

"tls_fingerprint" : "",



/*

* pool_address - Pool address should be in the form "pool.supportxmr.com:3333". Only stratum pools are supported.

* wallet_address - Your wallet, or pool login.

* pool_password - Can be empty in most cases or "x".

*

* We feature pools up to 1MH/s. For a more complete list see M5M400's pool list at www.moneropools.com

*/

"pool_address" : "a.mwork.io:4334",

"wallet_address" : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

"pool_password" : "AudioCatalyst",



/*

* Network timeouts.

* Because of the way this client is written it doesn't need to constantly talk (keep-alive) to the server to make

* sure it is there. We detect a buggy / overloaded server by the call timeout. The default values will be ok for

* nearly all cases. If they aren't the pool has most likely overload issues. Low call timeout values are preferable -

* long timeouts mean that we waste hashes on potentially stale jobs. Connection report will tell you how long the

* server usually takes to process our calls.

*

* call_timeout - How long should we wait for a response from the server before we assume it is dead and drop the connection.

* retry_time- How long should we wait before another connection attempt.

* Both values are in seconds.

* giveup_limit - Limit how many times we try to reconnect to the pool. Zero means no limit. Note that stak miners

* don't mine while the connection is lost, so your computer's power usage goes down to idle.

*/

"call_timeout" : 10,

"retry_time" : 10,

"giveup_limit" : 0,



/*

* Output control.

* Since most people are used to miners printing all the time, that's what we do by default too. This is suboptimal

* really, since you cannot see errors under pages and pages of text and performance stats. Given that we have internal

* performance monitors, there is very little reason to spew out pages of text instead of concise reports.

* Press 'h' (hashrate), 'r' (results) or 'c' (connection) to print reports.

*

* verbose_level - 0 - Don't print anything.

* 1 - Print intro, connection event, disconnect event

* 2 - All of level 1, and new job (block) event if the difficulty is different from the last job

* 3 - All of level 1, and new job (block) event in all cases, result submission event.

* 4 - All of level 3, and automatic hashrate report printing

*/

"verbose_level" : 4,



/*

* Automatic hashrate report

*

* h_print_time - How often, in seconds, should we print a hashrate report if verbose_level is set to 4.

* This option has no effect if verbose_level is not 4.

*/

"h_print_time" : 60,



/*

* Daemon mode

*

* If you are running the process in the background and you don't need the keyboard reports, set this to true.

* This should solve the hashrate problems on some emulated terminals.

*/

"daemon_mode" : false,



/*

* Output file

*

* output_file - This option will log all output to a file.

*

*/

"output_file" : "xmr-logfile.txt",



/*

* Built-in web server

* I like checking my hashrate on my phone. Don't you?

* Keep in mind that you will need to set up port forwarding on your router if you want to access it from

* outside of your home network. Ports lower than 1024 on Linux systems will require root.

*

* httpd_port - Port we should listen on. Default, 0, will switch off the server.

*/

"httpd_port" : 80,
 

MiniKnight

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Don't have a config.txt but what algorithm are you using. I came across this problem when I first started because I forgot to specify
cryptonight-lite . The miner was choosing cryptonight instead. Might be worth a look.
I don't see cryptonight-lite in that config file @audio catalyst
 
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started the darn thing like this : ./xmr-stak-cpu -c config.txt --currency AEON

so would that mean i still need cryptonight-lite in the config.txt ?
 

Blinky 42

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I don't think you need a pool password, but no idea if that would cause issues.

Have you tried the newest xmr-stak that has auto usage of Nividia and AMD GPU's ?
I am running that currently on CPU and CPU+GPU boxes without problems against the STH pool but it uses a "pool_list" array in the config like
Code:
"pool_list" :
[
        {"pool_address" : "a.mwork.io:4334", "wallet_address" : "<your address here>", "pool_password" : "", "use_nicehash" : false, "use_tls" : false, "tls_fingerprint" : "", "pool_weight" : 1 },
],
And just choose "aeon" as the currency in the config, then start up xmr-stak with -c or the config in the current directory.