[bf1942] Doesn't work

[Anders Bruun Olsen]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:06:20AM +0100, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
> > > > I am trying to get a BF1942 linux dedicated server up and running. I
> > > > have installed it, edited mods/BF1942/Settings/ServerSettings.con (where
> > > > I set the name, dedicated to 1, maxplayers to 16 and the IP). Once I run
> > > > it it spews out tons of warnings and stuff that I read somewhere that I
> > > > should just ignore, in the end it stops spewing out stuff and an lsof
> > > > -ni reveals that it is now doing something on UDP port 14567 and port
> > > > 22000 (it is not reported to listen on those ports!) but when I try to
> > > > connect to the server it fails. The network between the 2 computers is
> > > > working fine.
> > > > Anybody got any idea what might be wrong?
> > > I have now analyzed the network traffic with ngrep and found that 3 UDP
> > > packets are sent from the windows machine with BF1942 to the server, but
> > > the server never answers... 
> > > Anybody know how to fix?
> > If you want to play on your lan set the ip to 0.0.0.0 If you want the
> > server to be an internetserver change the internet setting.
> Okay, I have now set the IP to 0.0.0.0 and the server now shows up in
> local games and broadcasts it's presence, but connecting to it still
> fails!
> I have also tried setting the IP (to the local IP) and setting Internet
> to 1 and then tried telling the game the IP of the server, but yet again
> only 3 UDP packets are sent and no reply given...
> This is getting frustrating!

Okay, now I have it working.. I found out I only had BF1942 version 1.1
patch installed, not version 1.2 ..

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