Problems with the Lobby or MP

[youbob]

Hello.

This is has been a very frustrating day. All during the whole week WarZone 2100 version 2.3.7 has been running smoothly. (This is in Hosting games).

But Yesterday day, It failed to find the lobby. Just out of the blue! I have an linksys wireless rounter, and I'm on a wireless card. I have two different types. One is a USB LinkSys Compact Wireless G USB Adapter, the Other is some type of PCI card connected to my Mother board. Sadly, I don't know what the other one is called, but it is faster that my USB card. Either Way, the game runs in well when it comes to hosting, with either Wireless card.. BTW I run a 64bit Linux(Ubuntu 11.04 destro) OS, instead of using Windows.

Anyway, Still Yesterday, I fixed the problem by changing my IP number that the port was forwarding to. 192.168.1.100 If Worked fine! It use to be at 192.168.1.103, but for some reason started to work after I change it.

So today, I decided to get back on, and host a good game, but it won't let me find the lobby once more. So I did everything Switch Cards, Change my IP port numbers around, and still nothing!!!

I want to tracerount the Lobby But don't have the Web address at this moment.

Here is what the game is telling me in my log files...

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--- Starting log ---
error   |08:39:09: [readLobbyResponse] Lobby error (406): Game unreachable, failed to open a connection to port 2100.
error   |08:39:23: [readLobbyResponse] Error while connecting to the lobby server: Connection timed out
Make sure port 2100 can receive incoming connections.error   |08:39:27: [readLobbyResponse] Lobby error (406): Game unreachable, failed to open a connection to port 2100.

What do I do next??? I don't thing it's a hardware issue, It could be a firewall thing, but don't have a software base firewall, or at least I don't know one on my Ubuntu. It looks like it could be a server issue. IDK

[BunkerBlaster]

Hello.

BTW I run a 64bit Linux(Ubuntu 11.04 destro) OS, instead of using Windows.

Anyway, Still Yesterday, I fixed the problem by changing my IP number that the port was forwarding to. 192.168.1.100 If Worked fine! It use to be at 192.168.1.103, but for some reason started to work after I change it.

So today, I decided to get back on, and host a good game, but it won't let me find the lobby once more. So I did everything Switch Cards, Change my IP port numbers around, and still nothing!!!

Seems you already found the problem. Check your internal IP again and see if it changed. Start terminal and type ifconfig. Or go into your router and see what the ip is.

I want to tracerount the Lobby But don't have the Web address at this moment.

Start Networking tools and click on the tab Ping or Traceroute and type lobby.wz2100.net

[youbob]

Oh wow.. I don't know that the Internal IP has to be the same as what your trying to forward open the game.
192.168.1.105 was the case. And what I had to do was to change my settings on my IP.

[Ezio]

Oh wow.. I don't know that the Internal IP has to be the same as what your trying to forward open the game.
192.168.1.105 was the case. And what I had to do was to change my settings on my IP.

how do you forward it?, did you use build-in port forward from router(from web browser) or using third party application?.
try to forward all ip (like 192.168.1.* : 2100). our lobby ip is 188.40.152.188

[BunkerBlaster]

Oh wow.. I don't know that the Internal IP has to be the same as what your trying to forward open the game.
192.168.1.105 was the case. And what I had to do was to change my settings on my IP.

I'm glad you figured it out. So you understand each computer will have its own internal address on your lan. Also if you have 2 network cards in your computer they each will have their own internal address assigned by your router. The address is leased from your router for a certain amount of time. So another computer or card may take on the internal address that you had at some point in time. So yes the port you forward has to be specific to the correct computer or card that you want to host from.

[youbob]

I user the Forwarding process from my router. Again I have a LinkSYS. wireless router.. and I'm still having problems.
I do know that every computer that is connected to the network has it's own internal IP address. When Ever I connect and Wireless card to my computer, the IP address changes. I use the command ifconfig wlan0 or wlan1 (just depends one on which wireless card is allowing internet access.) So with my USB it's 192.168.1.107, and with the PCI card it's 192.168.1.105. Yesterday just by changing over the 192.168.1.105, with the port 2100, open, it did let me on the lobby, for a little while. After playing for about 30 mins, I lost my connection.

I tried to get back on this morning. This is what I get for an error message.

Failed to retrieve a game ID: Connection timed out

I played around with the USB card, and PCI wireless card, but Neither would get me back on.. And What I mean, is I plug in the cards, and changed my IP address and Port forwarding to Commentate the differences of the cards, in relationships to the rules with the IP.

I'm confused on what to do...... How do i stop this from happening, and I haven't installed any firewall. So is there a default Linux Firewall that I just don't know about, keeping me away from the game?

Thanks for your time on this people.. I really do love this game!!


EDIT!!!!

Btw My Router is WRT54GS2 Linksys. UPnP is enable!

[youbob]

Oh Now I can't even join games. Connection error. Gee... What's next. my Computer Exposes

EDIT!!

Ok the problem might have been fix.. I Had two different versions of WZ on my pc.. 2.3.4, and 2.3.7. I got ride of the older version and guess what, I'm in the lobby.. If it still gives me any problems I will let you all know... But Maybe the setting of the older version was interfering with the new version.....................

[BunkerBlaster]

I use the command ifconfig wlan0 or wlan1 (just depends one on which wireless card is allowing internet access.) So with my USB it's 192.168.1.107, and with the PCI card it's 192.168.1.105.

Try only using one card until you isolate the problem. In my computer I have 2 cards installed but keep one of them disabled at all times.

Yesterday just by changing over the 192.168.1.105, with the port 2100, open, it did let me on the lobby, for a little while. After playing for about 30 mins, I lost my connection.

That could be your internet connection and not your setup.

So is there a default Linux Firewall that I just don't know about, keeping me away from the game?

Its off by default.

Ok the problem might have been fix.. I Had two different versions of WZ on my pc.. 2.3.4, and 2.3.7. I got ride of the older version and guess what, I'm in the lobby.. If it still gives me any problems I will let you all know...

Its not Warzone. You can have as many different versions installed as you want.

Btw My Router is WRT54GS2 Linksys. UPnP is enable!

You said you were forwarding the port yourself. The game will forward the port for you if in the Warzone config file UPnP is allowed. If so it will override your manually forwarding the port changing what you had entered.

I don't know if this is possible because I've never seen it happen but perhaps you have both cards on at the same time and Warzone is forwarding to the wrong address because you have both cards on at same time? If your forwarding the port yourself you should disable UPnP in our config file.

Also your router only will lease the internal address for 1 day and is why your address is changing. Right now the lease time will be 0 or 1440 minutes. Try changing it to a larger number in your router.

[Verin]

I have the same router. I just turn on universal plug and play.

The first time I host it will say that i need to port forward, then ill just retry and it will work every time.

[BunkerBlaster]

I have the same router. I just turn on universal plug and play.

The first time I host it will say that i need to port forward, then ill just retry and it will work every time.

For what its worth, if you disable UPnP in your config file and forward the port in the router yourself you won't have to click retry.

[Tyler22]

so heres what I have a linksys wireless e3000 routes hooked up to a modem upnp is enabled and works on ps3 but I can get it to work on this on help to get it to work.

[Jaco Venter]

Hi all we have warzone 2100 3.1 rc3 and the MP fail to connect to the other two computers. We had lan warzone 2.3.9 and it was fine no errors. WZ 2100 3.1 rc3 is nice but we want to lan and every time is a failure when the one computer connect, the other one refuse it. Need help please!!!!!!!!......

Kind regards
Jaco

[Staff]

Hi all we have warzone 2100 3.1 rc3 and the MP fail to connect to the other two computers. We had lan warzone 2.3.9 and it was fine no errors. WZ 2100 3.1 rc3 is nice but we want to lan and every time is a failure when the one computer connect, the other one refuse it. Need help please!!!!!!!!......

Kind regards
Jaco

If you are playing on a LAN game, and you can't connect via the lobby, the reason is, your router is of the cheaper kind, that don't support true NAT. In this case, you must connect to the host's LAN IP (192.168.xxx.xxx or whatever).

[Jaco Venter]

We did that and then the other computer refuse to connect. Can it be that I connect with a wireless network connection? Or is it my motherboard? His lan port is broken.

Kind regards
Jaco

[vexed]

We did that and then the other computer refuse to connect. Can it be that I connect with a wireless network connection? Or is it my motherboard? His lan port is broken.

Kind regards
Jaco

This has nothing to do with the motherboard.
Don't use the external IP that your ISP assigns to you, use the internal LAN IP.
If the host is on 192.168.11.13, then you should enter that IP in the connect to IP box, and of course, the host must be waiting for connections by starting to host the game.
If it still can't connect, then either you are using the wrong IP, or there is a firewall issue of some type.