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On 8/14/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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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What is the game? I think that's the most important information you could give. |
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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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I don't think Gentoo default network config block anything. Its more |
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likely to be blocked at a router or windows firewall (at your server |
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machine). |
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