Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/14/06, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game
> > installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install
> > the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a
> > LAN session with the same game running on some Windows machines I got
> > a message about not having a network provider. Since it can get to the
> > Internet to download the updates I know it's not a hard networking
> > failure. What is it?
>
> What is the game? I think that's the most important information you could give.

Sorry. The game is StarCraft with the add-on BroodWar.

>
> >
> >    In the past I've heard that some of these games use UDP instead of
> > TCP. I was wondering where I configure a Gentoo machine to allow UDP
> > traffic, preferably only on my local network if possible so that I
> > could just see if this was the problem.
>
> I don't think Gentoo default network config block anything. Its more
> likely to be blocked at a router or windows firewall (at your server
> machine).
>

Thanks. I'll try to check it out. However the 4 Windows machines all
connect to the LAN game just fine - 1 server and 3 clients - so any
Firewall on the server is not hindering them - only the Linux/Cedega
box.

Note that the server, one Windows client and the Linux box that will
not connect are all hard wired to the wireless router. Two other
windows clients are on a local switch in my office and then running
across a wireless connection to the wireless router.

I'll do some Googling on the exact error message and see if I can
figure out anything that way.

Thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Mark
-- 
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list