Vekiq Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Hi All, First i would like to thank DCS to creating this amazing simulator, it has taken over my life fully :) After opening all ports and trying every possible option my friend and myself are not able to get it working propperly through internet hosting. When my friend hosts i can join only through IP connection, i can see his server listed, but only his IP, no server name or other details.That works only ocasionally After i opened all ports and after follwoing all help and advice written in various forums i managed to host once, but server was unstabile. We decided to try it through hamachi, and i am glad it works without a hitch. We are enjoying coop missions and learning how to handle this beast, and its a blast. We are both experienced and have reasonable IT knowledge, it is unlikely that we set up something wrong or dont know to adjust system to enable internet hosting/joining. It looks like multiplayer needs some patching. Till then our best friend will be hamachi, since we are unable to host internet server if there is anybody interested into joining us and do some flying (crashing :) ) Pm me and we can arrange details till DCS guys find some time to update Multiplayer. Take care
Jester_159th Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 What firewall software are you using? I had connection issues when joining as a client to our squad's server while using McAffee (my connection would simply drop out and I'd get a message the server had been shutdown..... Even though I was talking to a squad mate via TS who was still flying happily on the server at the time). I uninstalled McAffee, activated Windows firewall and haven't had a problem since. As with yourself I thought I had all ports etc set up correctly in McAffee.
Vekiq Posted January 11, 2009 Author Posted January 11, 2009 Hi Jester, I am using standard Vista firewall, i have forwarded all ports in it too, i also tried with firewall switched off, but no difference. Only other thing i am using is lavasoft Ad-aware, and i tried with ad watch switched on and off with no results. Take care
Jester_159th Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Ah ok. Sorry it didn't help you any. I'm on XP..... Never used Vista personally and have no idea what (if any) differences there are between the XP and Vista firewall software..... So I can't really help any further. Hope you get it sorted out soon. All the best.
Vekiq Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 I kinda got it working, server still does not show up in lobby, but people can joing uisng IP address. Thanks for your help
Scif Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 i found vista firewall was my issue for hosting and client issues, have done away with that now and all firewall rules are now hardware only.... seems there are always issues with software and hardware firewall running at the same time. Asus P8P67-M Pro, i7 2600K@4.6Ghz, 4gb Vengence Ram, Gainward GTX 580 3gb Phantom, Win7 64 Ultimate, Warthog Control System. Trackir 5 Pro, Saitek Combat Pedals.
Vekiq Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 I have sorted vista firewall issue,i haveo pened and allowed everything necesarry in there, no problems there. On sunday server worked perfectly fine, i tested by restarting PC few times, just to eliminate any services or unknown factors switching themselves on at every startup. I have also rebouted router few times for same reasons as with restarting PC, everything worked just fine. I thought that was it, all sorted, but no, yesterday i wanted to host and same problems are happening again. Its back to Hamachi for me till patch has been released.
RichardG Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Same problem here. I can join others as a client, but no one can see me when I host. I have ports open, windows firewall exception for DCS exe is on (tried with firewall off also). All other internet games run fine. It has to be buggy multiplayer code.
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