On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:14:54 -0600, hondaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ran a dedicated server the other night at a LAN party, and discovered a > couple peculiararities. First, only servers on ports 27015-27020 would > appear on the lan game browser. Is this a bug or a feature, and is > there a workaround?
I would say it is very much a feature and the reasoning behind it is quite simple should you see this scenario: You're running a massive LAN event. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of PC's all wired up on LAN. Switches all setup so that the network doesn't get flooded with all the traffic. The only worry here is broadcast traffic.. In this event you don't need thousands of PC's boradcasting to 50 ports at a time to see which games are running. You'd quickly end up with a packetstorm. 5 ports is probably about right. Not sure I agree with the choice of ports. But that's life. > Second, how do I make a server run on an aliased IP and have it appear > in the LAN browser at the same time? If you mean aliased as in it's behind a firewall using port forwarding.. Then so long as it runs on one of those ports and is on the same subnet as the other games.. It should (in theory) still be included in the LAN games list even if not running in LAN mode. Although I've never really tried it. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
