Alien Front Online Server Update: Now Online

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Re: Alien Front Online Server WIP *Edit: Now Online

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Wombat wrote:Thanks for the heads-up Xiden! Hopefully this iptable trick will eventually be included in the dreampi image so I can just plug & play =)

Have been booting up the other online games, so far so good (with the exception of a lack of players unfortuatly)

Edit; so cool, I still have my old AFO savefile with 50+ online games played, during the attract mode it showed old leaderboards. Will upload it later, perhaps it features fellow dc-talk members :)
Yeah its suppose to be included in Dreampi 1.6 :)
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I have been able to connect from day one but now all of the sudden it doesnt work and just disconnects and says that the server is unavailable. I tried the iptables patch but it doesnt help.
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wilfrido16 wrote:I have been able to connect from day one but now all of the sudden it doesnt work and just disconnects and says that the server is unavailable. I tried the iptables patch but it doesnt help.
I had the same issue, double check to make sure you aren't mistyping anything. I made that mistake too.
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you were right. thanks
i didn't add the two dashes in the IP tables command before the word destination

what is weird is that i never needed this before and have been playing with just dmz on for the dreamcast IP. every other game works fine without anything else required.
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Hi,
I cannot connect to the AOF server because I always get following message: Experiencing communication problems....

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I added the AFO IPTables in Dreampi 1.5. Do you know what the problem is?

Thx in advance,
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ports forwarded.. and or DMZ on for your DC?
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HuntrRose wrote:ports forwarded.. and or DMZ on for your DC?
Yepp...

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hmm.. I dunno then iptables+ports is all I know to do.. 8(
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Naomi2 wrote: I cannot connect to the AOF server because I always get following message: Experiencing communication problems....
That issue occurs when the DC (your router) doesn't accept UDP port 7980. Check if you have
configured your router correctly.
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Shuouma wrote:
Naomi2 wrote: I cannot connect to the AOF server because I always get following message: Experiencing communication problems....
That issue occurs when the DC (your router) doesn't accept UDP port 7980. Check if you have
configured your router correctly.
@Shuouma: Thx. But unfortunately my modem/router "is seeing" only the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. I know the Dreamcast IP address (x.x.x.98) but my modem/router not;(

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