zu22 at andrew.cmu.edu "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 06:01:18 GMT From: Darryl Palmer <darryl.palmer at worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: rec.games.netrek at us.netrek.org To: rec.games.netrek at us.netrek.org Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek Subject: [r.g.n] Re: Ghostbusted? Maybe the FAQ needs to be updated, it states that the command is: udpTryPortswap: on while in defaults.c line 761, we have this: #ifdef UDP_PORTSWAP portSwap = booleanDefault("portSwap", portSwap); #endif Whoops. ;) Who said RTFM(or I guess Faq), it should be RTFS. Darryl "Tom Holub" <doosh at best.com> wrote in message news:9lhdsa$1f63$1 at nntp1.ba.best.com... > In article <slrn9nocoj.il3.andmann at shebang.andmann.eu.org>, > David S. Geirsson <andmann at andmann.eu.org> wrote: > )I just installed COW (never really played netrek before), and when I connect > )to a server, I can login and select a team okay, but after that the client > )locks up. STDOUT has: > ) > )Attempting to connect to puck.psychosis.net on port 2592... > )Calling puck.psychosis.net on port 2592. > )Got connection. > )*** socket 4747, player 0 *** > )/usr/share/cow/sound/bgsndplay: No such file or directory > )Receiving Short Packet Version 11 > )Tried to write 6, 0xbfffef40, 12 > )write: Transport endpoint is not connected > )gwrite failed. > )Whoops! We've been ghostbusted! > )Pray for a miracle! > )Waiting for connection (port 4747). > ) > ) > )And it just hangs there. > ) > )(I've tried other servers, no go). > ) > )Any ideas what could be wrong? > > The sound error is probably unimportant. > The other error is probably caused by playing behind a firewall or NAT > gateway. > See <http://www.best.com/~doosh/netrek/netrekFAQ.html#10> for information > on how to turn on UDP_PORTSWAP. > -Tom > _______________________________________________ rec.games.netrek mailing list rec.games.netrek at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/rec.games.netrek