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On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100 |
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Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game |
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> > installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install |
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> > the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a |
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> > LAN session with the same game running on some Windows machines I got |
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> > a message about not having a network provider. Since it can get to the |
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> > Internet to download the updates I know it's not a hard networking |
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> > failure. What is it? |
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> > In the past I've heard that some of these games use UDP instead of |
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> > TCP. I was wondering where I configure a Gentoo machine to allow UDP |
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> > traffic, preferably only on my local network if possible so that I |
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> > could just see if this was the problem. |
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> As long as you don't have a firewall running, UDP is enabled. In case you do |
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> run a firewall, that is the place to allow UDP on the used ports. |
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> Uwe |
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tcpdump or ethereal will allow you to see what is happening on the |
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network before the error message appears. |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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