GPL dedicated server problem

Hi, I've just been trying to run a dedicated server on Vroc. Several minutes after people join I get a message in chat saying 'the server is disconnecting from us'. Does anyone know what this means? It's not an actual chat message from the player, but it does originate from their PC, so it's from their copy of GPL. The reason I know it's not a chat message from the player is that I've had the same message (identical) from four different clients before they disconnected. I believe they are not disconnecting deliberately, because when i've seen someone disconnect deliberately, that message does not appear. I'm on cable modem (512k down / 128 k up) and the dedicated server PC is pretty fast - p3-750. I'm getting this with only one player connected, so it doesn't look like a bandwidth problem. The cable modem was hosting 6 players fine a few days ago, but it wasn't a dedicated server then. Ever since I switched it to dedicated, i've been getting these problems. Thanks in advance for any help, Simon.

anyone? "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:vorv7.1567$[email hidden]... > Hi, > > I've just been trying to run a dedicated server on Vroc. Several minutes > after people join I get a message in chat saying 'the server is > disconnecting from us'. Does anyone know what this means? It's not an > actual chat message from the player, but it does originate from their PC,so

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> it's from their copy of GPL. > > The reason I know it's not a chat message from the player is that I've had > the same message (identical) from four different clients before they > disconnected. > > I believe they are not disconnecting deliberately, because when i've seen > someone disconnect deliberately, that message does not appear. > > I'm on cable modem (512k down / 128 k up) and the dedicated server PC is > pretty fast - p3-750. I'm getting this with only one player connected, so > it doesn't look like a bandwidth problem. The cable modem was hosting 6 > players fine a few days ago, but it wasn't a dedicated server then. Ever > since I switched it to dedicated, i've been getting these problems. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Simon. > >

I've never seen this message when hosting a dedicated server :-/ Remco On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:31:36 GMT, "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>anyone? > >"Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:vorv7.1567$[email hidden]... >> Hi, >> >> I've just been trying to run a dedicated server on Vroc. Several minutes >> after people join I get a message in chat saying 'the server is >> disconnecting from us'. Does anyone know what this means? It's not an >> actual chat message from the player, but it does originate from their PC, >so >> it's from their copy of GPL. >> >> The reason I know it's not a chat message from the player is that I've had >> the same message (identical) from four different clients before they >> disconnected. >> >> I believe they are not disconnecting deliberately, because when i've seen >> someone disconnect deliberately, that message does not appear. >> >> I'm on cable modem (512k down / 128 k up) and the dedicated server PC is >> pretty fast - p3-750. I'm getting this with only one player connected, so >> it doesn't look like a bandwidth problem. The cable modem was hosting 6 >> players fine a few days ago, but it wasn't a dedicated server then. Ever >> since I switched it to dedicated, i've been getting these problems. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help, >> Simon. >> >> > >

"Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:vorv7.1567$[email hidden]... > Hi, > > I've just been trying to run a dedicated server on Vroc. Several minutes > after people join I get a message in chat saying 'the server is > disconnecting from us'. Does anyone know what this means? It's not an > actual chat message from the player, but it does originate from their PC,so > it's from their copy of GPL. Hi Simon, I can generate this message by letting a client join with wrong settings in core.ini. For example the server have server_send_size = 100 and the client have it = 84. So this is the direction you should look for a solution. In the above situation the client gets a bandwidth mismatch error when it connects. It is probably a small error in GPL that the message speaks of the server disconnecting when in fact it is the client. Bart Westra

Ok, thanks for the help Bart. Thanks to Remco too. The help is much appreciated :) I've just been hosting races fine tonight, but that was when I was driving on the same PC too. I think this problem only appears as a dedicated server. I hope it's the clients deliberately disconnecting. Anyway, there's no reason why I have to setup a dedicated server anymore, since it seems my PC is fast enough to race and host, so the problem is avoided. Good news :) "Bart Westra" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9pt7tk$ohl$[email hidden]...

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> > "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:vorv7.1567$[email hidden]... > > Hi Simon, > > I can generate this message by letting a client join with wrong settings

in > core.ini. For example the server have server_send_size = 100 and theclient

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> have it = 84. So this is the direction you should look for a solution. In > the above situation the client gets a bandwidth mismatch error when it > connects. > > It is probably a small error in GPL that the message speaks of the server > disconnecting when in fact it is the client. > > Bart Westra > >

In article <YQ3w7.19491$[email hidden]>, "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>anyone? > >"Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:vorv7.1567$[email hidden]... >> Hi, >> >> I've just been trying to run a dedicated server on Vroc. Several minutes >> after people join I get a message in chat saying 'the server is >> disconnecting from us'. Does anyone know what this means? It's not an >> actual chat message from the player, but it does originate from their PC, >so >> it's from their copy of GPL.

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