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Another Linksys victim. Do yourself the biggest favor and get rid of it
right away. Netgear is about the same price and beats the hell out of
linksys(I've abused both extensively and the netgear is much faster and
stable). Linksys is aware of the problem(it has been going on for about
2 yrs now that they've been out) and has no real solution yet. The tech
I spoke with at Linksys explained how their routers flake out with
fragmented and/or very large udp packets. Aside from this, no two are
even the same. I was able to host without disconnects with the 1.34
firmware. Other's were not. All the newer firmwares either broke mine
or barely worked. Goto www.practicallynetworked.com, they have the
entire history of releases or just goto ftp.linksys.com and try out
different versions until you find one that may work well for yours. I
know several people who are doing great with the latest beta 1.39 and I
know some that work fine with 1.33(there's been no continuity in how
these routers work except for the fact that they really really suck).
Make sure your disabling "block wan request" and don't put anything in
dmz. Also, I have no idea why your forwarding all those ports when you
only have the single inbound udp 27016 to deal with.
Lythium
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 7:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Server problems
Stan,
I tried your suggestion -- there appear to be no errors when I
use the internal private IP -- only on the public IP address. I have
ports 27005-27030 open on the Linksys. Alternatively, I could get
another IP from my provider and direct connect the server (no
firewall)... I'm reluctant to do that, however, for obvious reasons...
Thanks,
John
At 02:38 PM 10/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
>First, test by connecting the clients directly to the internal private
>IP of the server and see if you get the same errors. To do this, open
>the game console on the client and enter:
>
>connect 192.168.1.3:27016 (or whatever the server's actual IP address
>is)
>
>StanTheMan
>TheHardwareFreak
>www.hardwarefreak.devastation.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:16 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Server problems
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm working on setting up an Internet server to play the DoD Mod for
>> Half-Life. I am running HLDS.EXE on Win2K. The machine is an AMD
>> Duron 850 with 256MB RAM, and an Intel 10/100 Card. The card is
>> connected to a
>> Linksys DSL router.
>>
>> On the router, I have opened ports 27005-27030 through to the server
>> machine, bidirectionally, for both TCP and UDP.
>>
>> I start the HLDS.EXE prog with the following: -game dod -port 27016
>> +maxplayers 20 +map dod_sicily
>>
>> HLDS starts properly, and registers the server. When I launch the
>> client, the server will appear in the "master list" and I can enter
>> the game.
>>
>> However, my clients (including me, connected locally to the same hub
>> as the
>> server) repeated get booted out from the game with one of the
>> following
>> messages:
>>
>> CL_Parse_Version: Server protocol is 12283163 instead of 45
>>
>> CL_EntityNum 1230 is an invalid number, CL_MAX_EDICTS is 1185
>>
>> CL_ParseServerMessage: Illegible Server Message - svc_bad
>>
>> Host_Error DispatchUserMsg: Illegal User Message 237
>>
>>
>> sv_minrate is set to 1000
>> sv_maxrate is set to 6000
>>
>> These sound to me like network errors, so I tested all the cables,
>> the connections, and all the cards. Everything is working perfectly
>> (the clients can connect to other servers flawlessly). Also, the box
>> running the server can run the client and reliably connect to other
>> internet-based servers.
>>
>> Additionally, I have tried this on three separate boxes, ranging from
>> a P2-350 all the way up to a AMD Thunderbird 1.1GHz with the
>> same results.
>> The only thing in common with these boxes is the Linksys DSL
>> router. I have
>> not had any trouble with this router before, and when I
>> connect to internet
>> sites, downloads, etc, everything seems to work without issue.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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