-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
Following recent discussions about the difficulties of running AudioQuake with MAUTH, I think it proper to throw in a few points: It is not impossible to run LAN parties with MAUTH enabled. There's no good reason to disable mauth, except for the one situation where AGRIP's master is down. You don't have to fraglog at the server. For the situation where LAN parties are partying and computers are limited in number, try connecting to one of the servers on the loopback. You still have to register all player names, of course. The clients will all verify them against the master server, and the game server must accept the master acknowledgements to allow the players on board. You have to make changes in your networking configuration for this to work, and it probably means authorised strangers can connect to your server. It also means your server can't be abused, and that you may log stats if desired. MAUTH is necessary for stats. We will have problems if MAUTH goes away. It'll be like the old days, with horrible people logging stats for horrible names against other horrible names and making peoples' lives miserable. If you turn off MAUTH, there will be no stats. You should stick to it if you can, but understand your machines have to talk to the outside world. That's a pity, but it's the only way to keep things healthy. You can disable MAUTH. The -nomauth switch (see sv_main.c) will let you turn off the queue verification. Hack it into your configuration for MAUTH to be disabled at client and server. Then, you should be able to do an oldschool client-to-client connection. You'll lose all benefits of MAUTH, though. I'm sorry if you're having trouble with MAUTH. Matthew is unwell at the moment. I'm nowhere near having enough genuinely free time to do much more than file these reports. We are coaching for help from every corner so that we have a chance of dealing with these sorts of issues. (Bug reports should, as always, be sent using Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/audioquake/+filebug .) I'll make sure to keep an eye out on this list in case bad things are happening to the master server. Cheers, Sabahattin - -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <sebby<at>agrip<dot>org<dot>uk> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sound, QA, Misc. Development, AGRIP Project http://agrip.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8 Comment: QDPGP - http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBSIJTLyNEOmEWtR2TEQITHgCgqB2FqLloTpNcGh8GEd47fp1uZ2MAoPF5 zGR/HF+U9atJTOMP2z0eOp02 =XG/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
