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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608142222.57122.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0608141326y59d4ef25v7de12108b404c6dd@mail.gmail.com>

On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht 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?
>
>    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.

As long as you don't have a firewall running, UDP is enabled. In case you do 
run a firewall, that is the place to allow UDP on the used ports.

Uwe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-14 20:26 [gentoo-user] UDP traffic? Mark Knecht
2006-08-14 21:05 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-08-15  0:23   ` Mark Knecht
2006-08-15  2:54     ` Winston Messer
2006-08-15  4:04       ` Ryan Tandy
2006-08-16  0:38         ` Mark Knecht
2006-08-14 21:22 ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2006-08-15  0:27   ` Nick Rout
2006-08-15  0:42     ` kashani

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