I'd open the ports to be on the safe side. The Lobby uses Matchmaking,
which is what throws players into your server, so I'd imagine that in some
way, shape or form, the ports would need to be open. Plus, the ports would
still probably need to be forwarded properly so that the router knows which
PC is the server and where to direct those requests.
Also, for sv_search_key, I had trouble when I used capital letters, so try
to keep it lowercase only.
sv_search_key lanserver <--good
sv_search_key LANServer<--maybe not good
I can't remember if using quotes gave me trouble, either, but I don't use
quotes in mine, so I know it's safe that way.
-Richard Eid
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Eid wrote:
> > As far as rates, go, I guess you could bump up the default value for
> > sv_maxrate to 20000. Other than that, there isn't any other adjustment
> that
> > needs to be done. The tickrate is 30, so you're pretty much all set for
> > that on the client end. If you choose to change sv_maxrate, make sure
> that
> > the clients all change the value for rate to 20000 as well. Everything
> > works fine with the defaults, so it's up to you.
> >
> > As far as getting connected, as long as there is an Internet connection
> > somewhere in that mix, you should consider using an sv_search_key to
> bring
> > everyone in through the Lobby system. I suppose you could have everyone
> use
> > the connect CVar in their console and then just restart the campaign once
> > everyone is in, but the issues that existed with connecting to a Left 4
> Dead
> > server through a Lobby behind the same NAT you're playing behind have
> pretty
> > much been solved. Using the connect CVar seems to be unnecessary now
> that
> > NAT Traversal has been fixed up. I think there may still be one
> outstanding
> > issue, but unless you are running multiple NATs at this LAN, you probably
> > wouldn't run into it.
>
> Hmm, I think I see how this is supposed to work, but I just tested it
> and couldn't connect. I'm able to connect via the "connect <ip>:<port>"
> method, but I tried setting the sv_search_key on both the server and in
> my config.cfg on the client. I can verify that I do indeed have it set
> on the client side, but when I try to create a lobby and find a
> dedicated server, I get squat. Does the dedicated server need to have
> ports forwarded to it from outside, even though it's lan play?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Jay
>
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