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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 25th, 2002, 09:53 PM
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Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Ooh, very cool.

My firewall allows arbitrary outbound TCP/IP connections on high (>1023) ports. Most firewalls do. Then the allow the return packets, once the outbound connection has been made. ...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 25th, 2002, 09:00 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Doesn't help if:

1. You don't control the firewall.

2. You have more than one player behind the firewall (you can only forward UDP to one machine, because it's connectionless).

3. You...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 25th, 2002, 08:46 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

RTC?
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 25th, 2002, 08:17 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

I don't have e-mail from the machine in question. 8)

Does PBW allow me to get around that?

-Robin
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 25th, 2002, 07:21 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Just for the record, it turns out that SEIV Gold uses *both* UDP and TCP.

Judging by my dump logs, the client sends a UDP packet to say, "Yo, I'm here.". The server then responds with a similar...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 09:13 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Zarix: note further that some of us can't alter the firewalls that we're behind. Work firewalls, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T cable internet blocked this stuff (they block so much...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 08:59 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Furthermore:

- -----------

<speaker3> as a matter of fact when dealing with modems you are likely to see an improvement in performance when moving to TCP

<speaker2> why's that?

<speaker2>...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 08:52 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

To be a lot more specific, here's an IRC chat with people who know more about networking than I can even begin to describe (I work at a company that has some people that are truly frighteningly good...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 08:33 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Actually, UDP is *worse* for transfer of anything larger than the size of a single packet (generally <1KB).

Substantially worse, actually. If SEIV Gold is using UDP for the actual turn transfers...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 08:01 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
Re: SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

Will do, thanks.

-Robin
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V January 24th, 2002, 07:43 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,922
Posted By robinleepowell
SEIV Gold Demo does *not* have TCP/IP

No, wait, before you flame.

I'm serious.

It uses UDP/IP.

This is *not* the same thing. In particular, pretty much every firewall on the planet can handle NATed connections using TCP/IP.
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