Host and Play on the same server?
I realize there is nothing wrong if you host a game directly in tribes 2. However, I was interested in hosting and playing on a tribes 2 server running the Renegades mod on the same computer. Everything works flawlessly up to seeing it on the server list. The problem is connecting to it. I have tried connecting to localhost: 127.0.0.1, by lan IP, and by WAN router ip with port forwarding enabled. I always either get: your client requires tribesnext (which is already installed), or something about rejected: replay attack attempt or something like that.
- Tried INSERT key for manual connection.
- Tried target directives: nologin nonpure connect [ip address] etc
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking my problem may be that outgoing and ingoing are both routed through 28000 and maybe that's causing a conflict?? It seems the error is preventing something catastrophic from happening to the computer.
[Edit:] I should add that Renegades using it's own separate EXE installed into the GameData folder. So Tribes doesn't have to be open to host. I've had people connect to my server, I just couldn't connect on the same box.
- Tried INSERT key for manual connection.
- Tried target directives: nologin nonpure connect [ip address] etc
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking my problem may be that outgoing and ingoing are both routed through 28000 and maybe that's causing a conflict?? It seems the error is preventing something catastrophic from happening to the computer.
[Edit:] I should add that Renegades using it's own separate EXE installed into the GameData folder. So Tribes doesn't have to be open to host. I've had people connect to my server, I just couldn't connect on the same box.
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If you're using a different Tribes2 executable than the one generated by the TribesNext installer, the system won't work.
Once you have the external address, the only limiting factor is whether your router will allow traffic it sees coming from LAN to return to LAN. On Linksys routers, you find the setting that disables NAT redirection, and leave it unchecked. You may also need to disable the router's firewall, but i've not tested that, and don't recommend such unless you are running software (i.e. windows/zone alarm/ghostwall) firewalls on all of your PCs.
There was a time when I ran 128 fully routable ip addresses wide open, with no firewalling. That was ten years ago, and that time has long passed when one could trust that a fully patched machine could be exposed and not get beat to death with attack attempts.