Is it possible to do this? Because soon I will be at the public library allowing people to play eachother in Donyokuna on a Lan connection, also at school I plan ot do this as a closed beta thing.
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UGH, port forwarding is a four legged dog.
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All normal dogs are four legged.
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Super Saiyan X wrote:
The closest you can get to a lan connection is to have them join through "byond://localhost:port" Well, that.. Or they can click "Open Location" and type in 192.168.numbanumbadotothanumba:port And then they have a LAN connection.. And it follows all the same rules you expect from LAN functionality in multiplayer games. The host can't be firewalled, most routers let it happen without any restrictions. Corporate and school routers may be another story though, they might have restrictions on LAN routing. If that's the case, you'd need to work with the school's tech dept, usually they're pretty cool about stuff if you're respectful and not a dick. I hosted multiple BYOND games back in high school for demonstrations, our network wasn't the most secure in the world but it did have a central domain which handled logins for all students, etc. Never had any issues. All you need is their local IP address and the port. | |
byond://localhost:port and byond://127.0.0.1:port both connect to the 'local ip address'
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Super Saiyan X wrote:
The closest you can get to a lan connection is to have them join through "byond://localhost:port" Why is this still being upvoted. This information is FALSE. You can open LAN connections simply by typing in their LAN IP:Port... You can even imitate the behavior he is talking about on the host computer by typing in myownLANIP:Port, and it will be just like you typed localhost... And when I say simulated I actually mean that is what HE is saying is simulating typing out one's local address. That's why localhost and 127.0.0.1 exist, so you don't have to know what your local IP is to be able to 'act' like you typed it in an IP arg. | |
All you need is their local IP address and the port. Super Saiyan X wrote: byond://localhost:port and byond://127.0.0.1:port both connect to the 'local ip address' Think you are miss reading that sentence the "their" would be the LAN IP they are using not localhost/127.0.0.1 one would assume.. The majority of LAN IP addresses that get distributed are : 10.0.*.* 192.168.*.* Where * is a number, you can easily find the LAN IP of any computer by running ipconfig in command prompt. You don't need to port forward anything when connecting to the LAN network (as AJX stated) or any PC on LAN you will however need to allow certain applications through the firewall if you have one. Why the post was up voted I assume it is because it does have some truth to it .. you can connect via BYOND://localhost:port but opening a port is completely incorrect unless you want to invite users from outside the LAN. Opening the ports could be a good idea anyhow in case you ever do want to host to the outside, you can always hide the server from BYOND in Dream Daemon or Dream Seeker. | |
I leave now, a happy customer. Thanks AJX.
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but, of course, you still need an open port for that.