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I just rediscovered Americas Army and have been enjoying playing when I'm not getting kicked by PB.  I'm looking for some help in troubleshooting my PB issues.  I've looked through the forums but have not found anything that has helped yet.

I'm getting kicked at random times with the following message "has been kicked for an undefined reason: pb restriction".  I'm playing on OSX (El Capitan 10.11.2) so the typical play as or repair as an administrator suggestion doesn't really apply.  When I launch a game I do see the message that PB has authenticated and is up to date.  Then some random time later (could be right away or several matches later) I get kicked with the above message.

I've tried doing the reset and repair option in Assist which hasn't helped.  Continuous pings to aao25.com and the PB IP reported in game don't show drops.  I've also tried making my PC the DMZ host on my FW incase inbound connections are needed for PB.

Anyone have any additional suggestions?  Are there any places I should be looking at log files?  Thanks!

I'll give that a try.  I have noticed a few times when PB kicked me that when I returned to Assist it had a notice that my connection was lost and I had to login again.

So I got kicked three times tonight and each time my assist auth connection was lost so that tracks.  My public IP is not changing so that isn't it.  Does assist create any kind of useful logging data I should be looking at?

I was reading something in another post that got me thinking maybe I'm causing it by alt-tabbing out of AA between matches to look at other things.  I played quite a few matches in a row without any issues when I stopped switching away from AA.  More testing needed to verify.

it can be that, mine did it to in the beginning, but i dont know how i made it stop,
im old 

What if el capitan sets applications "you are not using" to some sleep mode