From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 4 3: 0: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE19A1514F for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 01:59:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA37433; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:57:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA60610; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:56:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904040956.KAA60610@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ryan Alexander Carris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Server and Online Gaming In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:55:52 CDT." <199904040355.WAA24105@pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 10:56:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to use the `alias port' command to redirect the packets to the incoming machine. I don't know what the port ranges are, but I'm sure a search of this mailing list will reveal all. The latest version of ppp now supports port range specs too - makes life easier when configuring games ;-) > While home for easter, I'm trying to help a friend set up a > FreeBSD machine to act as a proxy for his home network. > So far, I got the PPP working great except that online gaming > no longer works. When we try to play Diablo, the game searches > for the fastest server. After about twenty seconds, it returns > an error message saying that the line quality is either very poor or > the networt is not processing UDP packets. It then allows online > chatting and so forth, but not game playing. > I'm pretty sure that > the line quality is fine, so it must be the UDP packets thing. > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this? > > thanks > > Ryan A. Carris > carris@purdue.edu -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message