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I can confirm the next update will have OpenSlots mod and MapVote mod included with assist with honor. I hope this helps our mod loving friends. Should be out in a few days.

Roger!

OIC!

I JUST WANT A SERVER WHERE LORDKATAR COULD PLAY WITHOUT KICKED

LordKater has never been kicked from the AUS community server other than for being idle (and I mean... Idle)

So, I guess your wish has come true.


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GAME PORT OK
QUERY PORT TEST OK
none, both passed.
Otherwise no one could join the server i guess

I suspect a port forward issue.  You can't just "open" the ports on your router, they have to be directed to your box.

What route/modem do you have?

What leads us to the issue of how this game determine your ping?
I have absolutely no idea...

think I found it...

25Assist uses a UDP Socket Write and catches it at the other end when the message sent is related to a variable "status" and "aa25ping"... direct extraction from the binary follows:

5627  Auth retry^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^N^@^@^@^I^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^I|startsrv^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^M^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Hstartsrv^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@#^@^@^@^^^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^^Checking for 2.5Assist Updates^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^K^@^@^@^F^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Faudpqr^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^M^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^H\status\^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^M^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Haa25ping^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^L^@^@^@^G^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Greqauth^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^C^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^C10.^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^M^@^@^@^H^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^H192.168.^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^I^@^@^@^D^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^D127.^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^K^@^@^@^F^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Fauthok^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^G^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^BX1^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^K^@^@^@^F^@^@^@^@^A^@^H^Fauthno^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@$

The items to note are udpqr (UDP Query) and what appears to be an embeded strings "status" and "aa25ping".  This is the return I was watching when I was packet sniffing my server to see how the traffic was going back and forth...

A deeper investigation is now warranted, as my analysis potentially results in a mistake I made in my Linux guide relating to ports...   I guess it's time to get onto Rev 1.

OIC!

BTW: I noticed that in the binary code above that there are two strings "10." and "192.168.", which are private IP's.  25Assist must parse out private network masks for some reason.  Maybe to have a local server (LAN) or to circumvent the auth server??


ANYWAY, back on topic... per [SWISS]Merlin...

HEY Energy_NL, any progress?!?

Impossible!
Like explained by "OICURMT2!".

There is no port forwarding of incoming ICMP requests cause this is not how NAT works.

Everyone is missing one little piece of information...

No routers can forward ICMP, as they are not TCP or UDP.  So if you can "ping" your box, what you are really pinging is your external router/modem.  Also, ICMP does not use ports, so how can you forward one?

ICMP was designed to directly echo packets for a response time for the device directly associated with the IP address.  While ICMP does contain an IP header, routers do not forward them because it is a "diagnostic" protocol.  Imagine if everytime you issued a traceroute command the packets were forwarded to a different location.  Systems engineers would never be able to find where the fault it.  It passes messages...

The only thing I can think of is by using DNAT, which is reserved for IP range forwarding, but really isn't designed to forward ICMP queries, but may be able to do it via a mangled pre-route similar to the following:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p icmp -d external.ip.address --dport 7 -j DNAT --to-destination internal.ip.address.range

Note that port 7 is the "echo" port, which is NOT ICMP ping (as ICMP does not use ports), but rather the actual "echo" service...

The problem with the iptable entry is that as an ICMP packet arrives to your external device, it would broadcast to EVERY internal device, which in turn would send back replies.  The recieving machine would register an error, as the return would not be valid.  I tried to test this, but couldn't get anywherre with it.

There may be a kernel level modules out there that does this, but I doubt it.

BTW: If you are talking about the ping to your server on the 25Assist panel, I'd bet dollars to donuts that that particular ping is the message return from the UDP query port and not an ICMP return.

I could be wrong (which SWMBO tells me constantly... )  but I suspect I'm not...

OIC!

you can host a server but you can't play 2.8.5 (native) on linux

Ah ... of course... 

Thankfully, I have some to spare... 

FIXED error in the guide....

Oh, so you're saying you don't have an account on dropbox? Or does dropbox require an account in order to download?

In my experience most people have a dropbox account anyway. And I'm pretty sure dropbox doesn't require an  account to download files (in fact I just tried it).

DropBox requires that you install a program on your computer in order to access the DropBox (upload).  I started the process, but stopped when it asked me to install a resident program on my comp, which would just be another WinBloz process...

Download is "free"... or I think it is anyway.  So , no , I don't have an account and really don't have a desire to have yet another account I have to track and remember a password for...

As for personal things, I have three servers in the house, each managing a different aspect of my life (RAID general storage, Media Server and Engineering Server).  HDD Docked backups for all, stored in a fire-proof safe.

Regards,
OIC!