Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 10:56:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Ryan Alexander Carris <carris@ecn.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Server and Online Gaming Message-ID: <199904040956.KAA60610@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:55:52 CDT." <199904040355.WAA24105@pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu>
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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
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