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 -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
