[bf1942] Random port query issue.

[Thomas M. Skeren III]

OK

I'm having second thoughts now.  However, you could also port forward in 
the router so that NIC 2 in the win32 box gets forwarded out on a 
different port, and the reverse the process for inbound packets.

Killing wrote:

> It the fact that bf1942 in the windows version doesn't have the 
> ability to set what port
> should be used for the query port. Hence if you start to servers on 
> the same machine
> binding to the same ip the first one started will have the standard 
> port the next with
> have the next available port and so on. It not random but since the 
> server restarts each
> map u can get two servers ping ponging between ports. This is fixed on 
> the Linux build
> but there are a number of other config line options we where hoping to 
> see so that we
> run bf1942 servers in a similar way to all our other servers. i.e. 
> using one install
> a number of config files and command line parameters.
>  
>     Steve / K
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Thomas M. Skeren III <mailto:tms3 at fsklaw.net>
>     To: bf1942 at icculus.org <mailto:bf1942 at icculus.org>
>     Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:53 PM
>     Subject: Re: [bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-22
>
>     I'll plead ignorance as to the problem being disscussed.  What's
>     the random port query issue.  And what are you using for a router?
>
>     Killing wrote:
>
>>Dam I thought ud got some cunning workaround :(
>>IP per server nice, wish we had enough ips but class B's are in short 
>>supply :P
>>
>>    Steve / K
>>

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