Not sure if im using wrong forum, so dont smite me if I make a mistake :p. I have a 3rd party person to try and host my game. Hes using a LAN not directly connected to the internet. Ive read up on BYOND's networking connections, and not a single one of the ideas they have posted up works. Now time to ask other people about this. It will show him online in the HUB, and on the pager, yet I cannot connect to him. Any ideas on how to fix this?
James
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 Jun 15 2003, 11:47 pm
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Yeah we tried doing what you just said, that was one of the things that the BYOND faq said to do. Thanks for explaining why some of these things do what they do though.
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I have LAN ISDN modem at my house and a t3 at work. At my house, I typed in my computer's IP address and a login screen shoed up. I put in the password that I set for the modem, and I logged in and opened a few ports. It works for me...
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impossible...
i have same prob, searched out hole this forum and the web.. asked my computer nerd uncle for help but he sayd same: imposible... | |
If you have access to your router and know it's model(so you can look for the online manual for it) or have the printed manual, there's no reason it shouldn't be possible.
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yea, ur right with that..
didn't think about saying that but my dad wont lemme mess with it so.. it's still imposible for me :D | |
i can't host and it stinks a lot especially for games like Tabletop and ones where the host gets great commands.
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Hosting on lan IS possible.
But you have to look for a manual on host to configurate your router/modem or what ever. There is a way to make sure all incomming trafic (packets) on a port (for example 2000) are send to one PC (with his own IP adress) in the network on port 2000. So then you will only need to host on port 2000 and it sould work. But i can't tell you how to configurate this cuz its differend for each router/modem and my dad configurated ours so i dunno how to do it myself. | |
http://developer.byond.com/forum/ index.cgi?action=message_list&query=port+forwarding
Tons of topics on it... If you cant get it though one of those, tell us what kind of router you have (Brand and model #). Regardless of what you have, there should be a way to forward ports. | |
Okay, no smiting--but I will say that this isn't a BYOND bug, so that should've been a clue that it doesn't belong in the bugs forum.
You'll have to clarify what you mean by that. I suspect you don't actually mean that the LAN isn't connected at all to the Internet, but rather that it connects through a router or something like that. That doesn't count as "not directly connected" though; if it's connected, it's connected.
If all you want is to access the game on that LAN, from another computer on the same network, then it shouldn't be too hard at all. But I think you're saying you're trying to connect over the Internet.
Can you be more specific as to what you tried? Did the advice include setting up port forwarding for a router? Are you sure your friend actually applied that advice correctly?
That it shows him online is just because when he starts DS, his machine will connect out to the pager. I think you'll find that you can't page him back, though; your messages will appear to get through but he won't receive them.
To host properly through a firewall or router, he has to set up the device (or software) to forward incoming traffic on certain ports to his specific machine, and then use those ports for hosting and the pager. If you've already been over this and it hasn't helped, then I don't know yet what else to tell you. But more details will help.
Lummox JR