DeMons?

I have this installed and working fine. The sim starts, connects,etc. When I log on with my primary pc I see two instances of my server. A Tcp/Ip and a Sierra. One has a ping and one doesn't. Is this normal? People are reporting that they can see the server on Sierra and ping it, but can't connect. A timing out error. I have forwarded the appropriate ports on my router and have added the port to my core.ini. I can connect, but no one else. I been reading the support pages, but perhaps I'm missing something. Any ideas? Sorry if this is stupid, but this stuff is rather new to me. I'm sure I will have more inane questions in the future. Thx -- Richard "ZZ" Busch Member: Screamers Racing League OAO CORS MARA TransAm RASCAR GPL Rank + 17.415 MoGPL Rank + 318.586 N2002 Rank + 7.695 TransAm Rank ??

In article <wPTmb.49537$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > I have this installed and working fine. The sim starts, connects,etc. When I > log on with my primary pc I see two instances of my server. A Tcp/Ip and a > Sierra. One has a ping and one doesn't. Is this normal? People are reporting > that they can see the server on Sierra and ping it, but can't connect. A > timing out error. I have forwarded the appropriate ports on my router and > have added the port to my core.ini. I can connect, but no one else. See if you have this setting in your core.ini file: [Communications] alternate_ip_addr_lookup=1 ; Find IP addresses another way If that's set to 0, change it to a 1 and try again.

See if you have this setting in your core.ini file: [Communications] alternate_ip_addr_lookup=1 ; Find IP addresses another way If that's set to 0, change it to a 1 and try again. ------------------------ That's the way it's been set. I have ports 32765 through 32800 opened on my router. The server port is set to 32766. The server shows up on Sierra, but has no ping and no one can connect to it. It even shows up on my local network. That is how I have to connect to it. The Sierra servers window has two copies of my server when I log on. One has T in the Network column and the other has S. I can only connect to the one with T. Others only see the S server. -- Richard "ZZ" Busch

If I remember correctly (been since N4 that I hosted off my local server) that's a Sierra deal and has nothing to do with DeMONs. Can you connect to the TCP host without going into Sierra? -- Michael Horton http://www.cta-racing.com

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> See if you have this setting in your core.ini file: > > [Communications] > alternate_ip_addr_lookup=1 ; Find IP addresses another way > > If that's set to 0, change it to a 1 and try again. > ------------------------ > That's the way it's been set. > I have ports 32765 through 32800 opened on my router. The server port is set > to 32766. The server shows up on Sierra, but has no ping and no one can > connect to it. It even shows up on my local network. That is how I have to > connect to it. The Sierra servers window has two copies of my server when I > log on. One has T in the Network column and the other has S. I can only > connect to the one with T. Others only see the S server.

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In article <yR_mb.35574$EO3.28740@clgrps13>, [email hidden] says... > If I remember correctly (been since N4 that I hosted off my local server) > that's a Sierra deal and has nothing to do with DeMONs. Can you connect to > the TCP host without going into Sierra? > I just happened to think about something - when you specify ports to forward, some routers allow you to specify the protocol to forward on those ports. NR2K3 uses UDP - not TCP/IP. If your router doesn't allow you to select the protocol to forward on the selected ports, all traffic is forwarded without regard for protocol, so it's a non-issue.

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>I have this installed and working fine. The sim starts, connects,etc. When I >log on with my primary pc I see two instances of my server. A Tcp/Ip and a >Sierra. One has a ping and one doesn't. Is this normal? People are reporting >that they can see the server on Sierra and ping it, but can't connect. A >timing out error. I have forwarded the appropriate ports on my router and >have added the port to my core.ini. I can connect, but no one else. I been >reading the support pages, but perhaps I'm missing something. >Any ideas? Sorry if this is stupid, but this stuff is rather new to me. I'm >sure I will have more inane questions in the future.

I had the same thing happen when I first set mine up. Damned if I can remember the fix now... :-( Check in your player.ini and see if there are two entries for [ip0] or [ipx0]. The answer to that may jog my failing memory. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.