Connection Problems (oh yeahh)

[flofighter]

Hi. I have the "Can't connect to ..." problem.

I have a cable modem + a wlan router from dlink. I tried port forwarding, dmz, port trigging in all differint kind of combinations. Then I directly connected my PC to the cable modem, received a public IP and it didn't work either.

So I captured some packets with ethereal/wireshark and found the problem:

My PC sends a 9 byte udp packet to the default gateway on port 2234 (directplay port?). And it received a ICMP port unreachable response. The interesting thing is that, it didnt matter wheter I used my router or was directly connected to the internet. In both cases it did send the packet to the gateway (192.168.0.1 for the router and 84.xx.xx.254 for the direction connection). I logged all the traffic and didnt found any other valueable packets except from the http/httpx traffic which was exchange for auto update.

For me it seems like my pc tries to contact the wrong machine at port 2234. The funny thing is that there is no packet for port triggering this port, neither its documentated in the faq that you need port 2234.

I also did a dxdiag diagnosys and it all seems okay except that Allegiance is NOT in the list of lobbyable directplay games. Therefore I tried a reinstallation which didn't bring any results.

Maybe someone else has the same problem or some kind of advice what I could next (before I will read the source code ;-))

greetings from germany,

flofighter

EDIT: I also tried UPnP (on and off).

[Raveen]

I have no help for you as such but try the FAZ Beta that's currently in testing. Find it in this thread - http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...showtopic=23828

The new Beta doesn't need port forwarding or anything so you should be able to connect. Unfortunately there won't be anyone playing there just yet (except Wednesday evenings) however this Beta is due to become the official version of Allegiance in the next week or so (early December is what we're working to). If you can connect to the Beta lobby then you'll be able to play when the main allegiance gets updated.

In the mean time someone else may be able to help you get in game now!

You may need to post again using the template in the Read Me First post to make sure we have all the information we need.

[flofighter]

Thanx for the replay.

I tried the beta and it worked without any problems. So I will wait for next wednesday evening (GMT Time?). Until that I will do the training missions.

And here is my template:

Windows Version (and Service Packs): Windows XP SP2
Processor Speed: 1400 Mhz
RAM: 512 MB
Video Card (Make and Model#): ATi 9000 Mobility (32MB)
Sound Card (Make and Model#): Onboard Sigmatel (Dell Latitude D600)
Connection Type (Dialup, Cable, DSL, other): 6Mbit Cable
Modem (Make and Model#): Webstar
Router (Make and Model#): DLink DI-524
Internet Service Provider(company name): Kabel Deutschland / Germany
Location(State/Province/Locality, and Country): Saxony, Germany

Problem Encountered at Step #: Joining the Lobby
Which Program (ASGS/Allegiance): Allegiance
What Error Message: Failed to Connect to Lobby
Comments (What you tried, description, etc):

...see my posts above..

[FreeBeer]

I have a dlink too, but a different model. Here's what I set in mine to get it to work. You seem to know what you're doing, so I toss this out just in case it may be of some help to you.




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