AW: [bf1942] bind BF2 to non-primary IP-address?

[Timo Hilbertz]

that's exactly what we did (of course), but that did not work.

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Per Kristiansen [mailto:per at gathering.org]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2005 12:54
> An: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Betreff: Re: [bf1942] bind BF2 to non-primary IP-address?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:40:18AM -0700, ScratchMonkey wrote:
> > --On Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:32 PM +0200 Timo Hilbertz
> > <hilbertz at ipx-server.de> wrote:
> >
> > >some people (including me) have difficulties when trying to run BF2
> > >(Linux) on the non-primary IP-Address. You cannot connect if the server
> > >doesn't use the first IP. Any solution for that?
> >
> > I've seen a number of people use the term "non-primary". What
> do you mean
> > by that?
> >
> > I think interfaces get named in the order they're found on the
> bus, but you
> > might be able to override this if they use different drivers, by naming
> > them explicitly in modules.conf.
> >
> > Try using "lsof -i" to see what interface the process is
> actually listening
> > on. tcpdump or ethereal (packet sniffers) can also be useful
> for figuring
> > out what's going on.
>
> Done that .. have a server with two ip's on.
> so what I did was set the IP in the server config file (sv.serverIP)
> to my "second" IP.
>
> fired up the server.
>
> and hey presto..when running lsof I get :
> bf2_f      7781    games    3u  IPv4 136453318       UDP *:29900
> bf2_f      7781    games    6u  IPv4 136453323       UDP *:41195
> bf2_f      7781    games    7u  IPv4 136453327       UDP <Primary
> IP>:16567
> bf2_f      7781    games    8u  IPv4 136453326       TCP *:4711 (LISTEN)
> bf2_f      7781    games   11u  IPv4 136453401       UDP *:55124
> bf2_f      7781    games   12u  IPv4 136453402       UDP *:55125
>
> hmm.
>
> but it SEEMS to bind to all the ip's on the server, atleast when
> I use nmap to scan for port 4711
> on my host i see it on both ip's
>
> Note: One interface , 2 IP's..this might have something to do with it.
>
>
> --
> Per Kristiansen
> per at gathering.org
>
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