Tinc for gaming

[Russell Handorf]

I have the same thing set up- because of how certain games use the 'lan 
lobby', it only broadcasts on the local subnets. IE, if your IP subnet 
is 192.168.1.0/24 and your friends is 192.168.2.0/24, then there are two 
separate 'lan lobby' broadcasts that are going to occur. You either have to:

1. Setup a IPTABLES firewall to mangle the packets and rebroadcast
2. Write a program to forward these broadcasts into the other subnets
3. Use the 'direct connect' feature in most games, where you enter the 
hosts IP address

We use options 3.

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Russell Handorf
 
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Arjen Geerse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to set up tinc for playing lan games over the internet.
>
> The three of us are running tinc, can ping each other and browse 
> shared folders. yes, windows :|
>
> However we cannot connect because we don't show up in the game lobby.
>
> The games usually require udp ports to be open, but I think these are 
> all open once we establish the tinc tunnel.
>
> Also, testing with all computers in the DMZ did not solve our problem.
>
> Does anyone have ideas as to what more we can try to make this work?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Arjen
>
> PS we tried hamachi.cc but it is way too slow.
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