Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100
Uwe Thiem wrote:

> 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

tcpdump or ethereal will allow you to see what is happening on the
network before the error message appears.




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