From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GCmrR-0003hp-HR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:32:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7F0UZ4I015733; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:30:35 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7F0RZji002501 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:27:35 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E9FDF92 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:24:23 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:27:34 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic? In-Reply-To: <200608142222.57122.uwix@iway.na> References: <5bdc1c8b0608141326y59d4ef25v7de12108b404c6dd@mail.gmail.com> <200608142222.57122.uwix@iway.na> Message-Id: <20060815122516.1ED3.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.02 [en] X-Archives-Salt: c29bfe3e-3c8a-4a12-bc52-0a63ca549675 X-Archives-Hash: 81064fd9dd8ef35ed916be6781fbc5db 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. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list