Paul Mercer wrote: > Just as a side note DirectPlay can be troublesome if you are going to be > running the game behind proxy/NAT/firewall devices.
Really? You think opening up 1000 ports on your firewall is a potential issue for some people? :-D </sarcasm> Honestly, DirectPlay is crap. Until they can lock the thing down, and make it NAT friendly (and especially support more than one person behind a NAT), I would stay away from it. Yes, it's more work, but for the game in question (presumably turn-based, not real-time), it makes a heck of a lot more sense to just use a single-port TCP connection anyway (which makes you firewall friendly! yay! :). Brad -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/ You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
