Help: Long time ETPro devotee, but Server n00b

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:49 pm

Yes, I am behind a NAT router.

Ok, I have removed the "set_ip" and removed the subfolder for the server.cfg.

Starting server with:
etded.exe +set dedicated 2 +set net_port 27960 +set fs_game etpro +set fs_homepath 27960 +set sv_punkbuster 1 +set com_hunkmegs 196 +exec server.cfg +map goldrush

Currently server.cfg & maprotate.cfg, are in my etmain folder. I have forwarded UDP ports 27950-27965 to the correct internal IP.

Can someone please try to connect and let me know if you are able? Additionally, I would like this server to show up in the popular server browsers, so any help there would be appreciated.

BTW, Reyal please say hello to Oral_B for me.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:50 pm

Additionally, I should mention that I am able to join the server via my LAN and it runs through my custom campaign correctly.

ReyalP · Post by **ReyalP** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:15 pm

Connected OK, 150 ping from west US.

The ftp download for yama.pk3 didn't work, but with cl_allowdownload 0, I was able to connect. If I let the FTP download time out, the UDP download also works.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:39 am

Reyal,

Thank you! One other person had the same result. BTW, 150 is the right ping from there. I used to play on Terminal Insanity MBox all the time and that was about my ping.

Does the FTP redirect look correct in my config? If so, I probably need to change something in my FTP server.

Please, advise.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:40 am

Quick question... basically I should be setting the FTP server to accept an anonymous connection, is that right?

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:23 am

Can someone please give this a try again and let me know what happens?

Server: 61.198.212.29:27960

I believe I have the FTP sorted out. I have a 100Mbit connection so downloads should be fast.

Lagger · Post by **Lagger** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:47 am

IIRC, ET sends a referrer string with the ftp request (or is that only http?), you can use this to prevent other server admins from redirecting to your FTP.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:33 am

Lagger, can you or someone else expand on the "referrer string"? At the moment my FTP is just setup to accept anonymous connections. Should it be set to something different?

Lagger · Post by **Lagger** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:32 am

Nah i remembered incorrectly, it only works for http.

ReyalP · Post by **ReyalP** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:31 pm

Yamabushi wrote:Lagger, can you or someone else expand on the "referrer string"? At the moment my FTP is just setup to accept anonymous connections. Should it be set to something different?

you can encode the username and password in the URL. like:
ftp://user:password@host:port/path

If you can, I would suggest using http downloads instead. If nothing else, a lot more people know how to set it up correctly.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:02 pm

I appreciate all the help so far.

If anyone can help farther that would be great. I need to get some feedback regarding the following four questions:

1) Are you able to successfully connect?
2) Are you able download successfully?
3) What kind of speed are you getting?
4) Does my server, "Yamabushi's Place", show up in your server browser?

Thank you in advance.

The Birdman · Post by **The Birdman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:26 am

I live in Ireland, the other side of the world from you, but thought i'd give it a try and see what kind of connection i'd have. Here's my answers to your questions.

1. Yes on my second attempt after adding missing map to etmain folder.

2. Yes but not from redirect, i didn't have the map baserace_b3 in my etmain folder, the download from the redirect failed and it started downloading from the server, so i stopped it closed the game and added it myself (it was going to take 9 minutes from server, i had the map but just not in my etmain folder).

3. With no one else in the server i was running around as if i had zero ping, but it was ranging from 400 to 420

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4. No, i had to use "connect to ip", i restarted the game several times and it never showed in the list.

Happy fragging from Ireland, hope you get it all sorted.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:54 am

Birdman,

Thank you very much for the feedback.

I made some changes, to the FTP Server... if you get a chance to try again that would be great.

BTW, my question #3 is about download speed, sorry for being ambiguous.

The Birdman · Post by **The Birdman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:59 am

woops on #3, the old grey matter wasn't fully awake this morning when reading

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I removed baserace in case i hit that map again, but lucky enough it was another (axislab) that i also didn't have in my etmain folder (did a reinstall recently haven't added all maps to folder yet, i'm a lazy bugger lol), but sadly the redirect failed again and it started downloading from the server @ 12kb with a time of approx 12 mins.

Yamabushi · Post by **Yamabushi** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:11 am

Birdman,

OK, you are showing up on my FTP. It appears that things are going wrong when it starts hitting PASV mode.

I just put more explicit settings there as far as my external IP and port range. I really hope that does the trick.

You've been a great sport if you have a chance...

Thank you !