Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:09:29 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: currrent@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/linux_ioctl-3.0-current.tar.gz Message-ID: <199802160709.XAA22482@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:33:18 PST." <199802120533.VAA00647@rah.star-gate.com>
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Wondering if anyone has made any progress in deciphering what quake 2 expects when it is doing a broadcast all via sendto? Amancio > > Updated the linux layer to include Luoqi Chen which makes Quake2 work > in standalone mode . We can't play Quake 2 over the > network, yet. If anyone has the time please feel free to track down > the problem. > > At 08:47 PM 1/26/98 -0500, Luoqi Chen wrote: > >After hacked a version of mremap() that only implements shrinking, I was > >able to play single-player games (softx version). But I had trouble with > >network mode. When I chose join a game from the multiplayer menu, it exited > >before showing the server and port menu. The error printed was Net_Sendpacket > >error -99, which is EADDRNOTAVAIL. I did a ktrace, it was a sendto() call > >to broadcast address 255.255.255.255, and since my default route is a non- > >broadcastable ppp link, it returned error EADDRNOTAVAIL. So I added a piece > >of code in linux_sendto(), whenever it saw a 0xffffffff address, I changed > >to broadcast address of my ethernet card (not connected). The -99 error > >message went away, but quake2 still shutdown at the same point. Does anyone > >have any idea? It seems that networking code has changed a lot from quake > >to quake2. > > Enjoy, > Amancio > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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