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Here are the changes. As I said, for the moment I just will try to make a manual diff below, in order to make your merging job easier. As for collors, yellow means context and comment information, red means removed lines, green means added lines. There may be some typos in there, but that's because I had to craft it manually.

[In aaudp.rbp :: App :: Event Handlers :: Run
We bind UDP socket to the IP given in third command line arg (if any)]
  UDPs.RouterHops = 255
  UDPs.Port = val(args(1))
  if UBound(args) >= 3 then
    Dim multihomeIp As String
    multihomeIp = args(3)
    Dim i as Integer
    For i = 0 to System.NetworkInterfaceCount - 1
      Dim n As NetworkInterface
      n = System.GetNetworkInterface(i)
      if n.IPAddress = multihomeIp then
        UDPs.NetworkInterface = n
      end if
    Next
  end if
  UDPs.Connect

[In dedisrv.rbp :: App :: Methods :: setno
We assign number to additional aa25.ini param "multihomeip"]
  CASE "colour"
    RETURN 28
  CASE "multihomeip"
    RETURN 29
  CASE "processid"
    RETURN 98

[In dedisrv.rbp :: App :: Methods :: RunSrv
We propagate multihome IP (if present) to serverx.exe and aaudp.exe]
    Dim srvOptions As String
    srvOptions = "LAN "+ Filename(map) + " ini=aa25srv.ini log=aa25srv.log"
    if settings(29) <> "" then srvOptions = srvOptions + " multihome=" + settings(29)
   
    Dim udpOptions As String
    udpOptions = str(srvport+1) + " " + str(srvport+2)
    if settings(29) <> "" then udpOptions = udpOptions + " " + settings(29)   

    if success = true then
      Mshell.Execute "aasrv"+settings(98)+".exe LAN "+Filename(map)+" ini=aa25srv.ini log=aa25srv.log"
      Mshell.Execute "aasrv"+settings(98)+".exe " + srvOptions
      udpx.Execute "aaudp"+settings(98)+".exe " + str(srvport+1) + " " + str(srvport+2)
      udpx.Execute "aaudp"+settings(98)+".exe "+ udpOptions
    else
      Mshell.Execute chr(34)+aahome.child("System").ShellPath+"\aasrv"+settings(98)+".exe"+chr(34)+" LAN "+Filename(map)+" ini=aa25srv.ini log=aa25srv.log"
      Mshell.Execute chr(34)+aahome.child("System").ShellPath+"\aasrv"+settings(98)+".exe"+chr(34)+" " + srvOptions
      udpx.Execute chr(34)+aahome.child("System").ShellPath+"\aaudp"+settings(98)+".exe"+chr(34)+" " + str(srvport+1) + " " + str(srvport+2)
      udpx.Execute chr(34)+aahome.child("System").ShellPath+"\aaudp"+settings(98)+".exe"+chr(34)+" " + udpOptions
    end if
    SrvRun = true

[In dedisrv.rbp :: aqrtime :: action
We propagate multihome IP (if present) to udp test code]
      Dim udpTestIp As String
      if app.settings(29) = "" Then udpTestIp = "127.0.0.1" else udpTestIp = app.settings(29)
...
        if app.prcnt > 3 then
          if not app.UDPtest.IsConnected  then app.UDPtest.Connect
          app.udptest.Write ("127.0.0.1:"+str(app.SrvPort+1),"aa25ping")
          app.udptest.Write (udpTestIp + ":"+str(app.SrvPort+1),"aa25ping")
          app.out "Ongoing port test trying"
        end if
...
     if app.prcnt > 20 then
...
      else
        app.prcnt = app.prcnt + 1
        if not app.UDPtest.IsConnected  then app.UDPtest.Connect
        app.udptest.Write ("127.0.0.1:"+str(app.SrvPort+1),"aa25ping")
        app.udptest.Write (udpTestIp + ":"+str(app.SrvPort+1),"aa25ping")
      end if
             

I just had similiar problem which was causes by multiple network interfaces in the server machine. Do you have them also?

Thanks.

I don't know what 'D&M' is, but hey, come to my place, and I buy you all you can drink.

Yup, that's the big problem.

Pit-23 since u want to really help, why don't you join their team then and help improve the code? I bet you would get the source without having to reverse-engineer it

Well, if you would read my posts, you would know that i'm just trying to do this. I encountered a problem with running 2.5 assist dedicated server on a host with multiple network interfaces. I was ready to solve that myself. I discovered that there is some source, and I was happy. Then I discovered that the source is not complete, and then I was unhappy :-DDD.

You sound just like someone I used to know pretty well from smirl who entered people's pc's to steal their code, and then release them unchanged...
Keep Cool

I won't even comment on that.

Pit, I'll just comment on a bit of your post. Those experienced in UScript can easily decompile Jonny's work. If I can do it, anybody can. So, if someone experienced in either RealBasic or UScript wants to help by improving the work that's been done or making things easier, that's fantastic and we'll allow it and encourage it.

I totally agree. I'm completely new to this, but I already found that people offer tons of decompilers for this :-D. So you should get my point: by obscuring this source code, you won't prevent those really bad guys from doing their work, but you just make it harder to understand for the good people.

This has changed from when I read in your post earlier, you have edited it.
What you said earlier went something also the lines of I know how to make some hacks undetectable and i probably will. Or I probably will make some undetectable hacks.
I banned your account and your hardware when I read that. I cannot allow someone to destroy all the work this team has put into this project, and over the years i'm talking maybe 1000's of hours on my part, thats a huge investment of my time, I cannot have people coming here and hacking it up, I have to protect my project and the security of the people who use it. I will consider removing the bans now you have revised your post but i'm going to take some time to think about it.

Wow, this is really absurd. Are you gonna ban e.g. me also, cause I asked for .u script sources, and my intentions are unknown?

First of all, if you're so much concerned about security, you'd better use some other means than obscuring the source code. You know, there are many projects much more more important from security point of view than an FPS game, and still the _whole_ source code is available. Take ssh/sshd for example. I was really impressed and positively sursprised, that you made those .rbp files available. But then you declined to give the .u files, so we were back on the same track again.

Second, it should be obvious to you that by opening the whole thing, you can attract more people to hack (in the true, positive sense) on it, and improve/extend the system. One one hand you say I request feature needed only by me, and you don't have time for it, no one donates, etc. etc. On the other hand you give the source, but not all.

And third, why are you so afraid of cheaters, that you are ready to shut the whole system in case some of them become problematic? In practice they can be spotted just by other experienced gamers, and eliminated, even that technically their hacks are undetected. Of course, sometimes really talented players may be misjudged that way, but that's another story.

The whole discussion is even more absurd, when we take into account the fact, that the game is basically dying. Yeah, the effort of assist project has resurrected it for some time, but it's still an "intensive care patient". Fucking zombie game so to speak, but we all love this zombie, and that's why such arguments in this community are ridiculous.

And finally, although I spoke in somewhat aggressive way, I'm really not your enemy. You really did a great job, and i'm really impressed by your AA knowledge. Ok, I don't like this realbasic code, but that's a detail ;-D (btw. why didn't you do this in e.g. python?).

Cheers.