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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello geno,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whenever I run into problems like this, I find it's
best to go back to basics. The first thing I would try to identify is
whether the high ping and packet loss are actually only present when the game
server is running. Your problem might not be with the game server at
all. For example, I have seen occasions where a server has been acting
like this on my LAN, but it was due to a bad network cable. Try pinging
the Linux system without the game server running and see if the problems
exist. You should also ensure that your system isn't running too many
other applications, other than the game server, which are utilizing needed
system resources and that you aren't dipping into your system's swap file to run
the game. Another thing you might consider is trying to run a different
network application on the system and see if it too exhibits these
symptoms. I'll wager that it has something to do with your hardware or
your specific system configuration. As a footnote, I have been
successfully running the game server on my system without any problems using the
following configuration:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RedHat 7.2 - stock load</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PIII-800</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>384MB PC133 RAM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>T3 Internet connection</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shockwave</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=geno@gamearena.it href="mailto:geno@gamearena.it">geno</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mohaa@icculus.org
href="mailto:mohaa@icculus.org">mohaa@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:53
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mohaa] About Ping and
PL</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its not a problem of bandwidht because its on 100
Mbit, where Server on NT works perfectly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linux : Red Hat under dual Cpu PIII 700 Mhz. Only
1 server is up, Mohaa.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=shockwave@clanshortfuse.com
href="mailto:shockwave@clanshortfuse.com">[-SF-]Shockwave</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mohaa@icculus.org
href="mailto:mohaa@icculus.org">mohaa@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mohaa] About Ping and
PL</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello geno,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Without knowing the specifics of the system
running the game server, the settings you used for the game server program,
and the type of connection you are using, it's difficult to say. More
details would definitely help. I'm not aware of any Linux server
problems like the ones you are having. In fact, I would go so far as
to say that Linux allows the game server to run on more modest hardware
platforms with greater reliability than its Windows
counterpart.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shockwave</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=geno@gamearena.it href="mailto:geno@gamearena.it">geno</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mohaa@icculus.org
href="mailto:mohaa@icculus.org">mohaa@icculus.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 27, 2002 7:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mohaa] About Ping and
PL</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1 Question about Ping and Packet
loss.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have 1 server Mohaa that work on Windows
2000 machine and it work fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But 1 server that work on Linux have
something High ping than windows 2000 and some packet loss...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone know why this difference
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks guys</FONT></DIV>
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