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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
