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Setting up a BF1942 server.

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  • 01-12-2003 12:13am
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    dr strangelove
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭


    Hi, quick question - I've set up a BF1942/EoD server on my home machine so that myself and a few friends can use it to practice on (flying helos, using teamspeak etc). The only problem is that while everyone else (externally) can see and connect to the server (and play games on it), I can't.

    I'm using another machine on the same network as the game server, both sharing the same DSL connection through a gateway. I can't see the machine in the in-game server listings, and cannot connect to it if i try to connect using the IP/port of my gateway machine.

    Any ideas on how to get round this?

    Cheers


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    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    imfairly clueless on this so dont take it as gospel, but,

    sounds to me that your setting up a dedicated server, ie. a server that doesnt allow the host machine to connect to the game, doing this improves the overall proformance of the server.

    not to sure about connecting from the other machine though. it might be because your sharing an ip with the server machine.


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    dr strangelove
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Yeah, i've got the one machine running the bf9142 dedicated server, another running the game, and a third acting as a Firewall/router/gateway.

    Hmm, i'll look into the IP sharing thing - it's somewhere to start, cheers.


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