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Direct IP Not Working

September 28, 2007 1:09:19 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Me and my friend tried to play a direct ip game and whenever one of us hosted and the other tried to connect it said disconnected from the server.
I know it doesn't have to do with firewall because mine is not blocking the game and my friend doesn't have one...
anyone has any ideas or even a solution?
p.s: we have normal modems not raouters
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Reply #1 September 28, 2007 1:33:38 PM
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Anti-virus programs may also interfere, be sure to check them out and temporarily disable them if need be for testing.
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Reply #2 September 28, 2007 3:18:18 PM
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It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.

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Reply #3 September 29, 2007 12:07:39 AM
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It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.


Lol, yes, quite common.
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Reply #4 September 29, 2007 12:31:42 PM
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It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.




and if i have 2 cards?
what can i do to make it work?
my friend has a network at home can it effect as well?
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Reply #5 September 29, 2007 4:58:13 PM
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Until we figure out something more elegant, use trial and error to disable the card that Sins isn't using.

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Reply #6 September 30, 2007 1:57:57 AM
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Rather than trial and error, I'd say to just disable all network interfaces except one, the one you actively want to use.
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Reply #7 September 30, 2007 3:48:11 AM
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It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.



Woooohooo i can HOST i can HOST

I got 2 network ports on the mobo and after i disabled one of them i could host
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Reply #8 September 30, 2007 5:14:08 PM
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Lol, multi - I wish I had recommended that before! We've never thought anyone would ever have multiple cards, so we didn't think to handle it. You learn the strangest things in a beta test ...

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Reply #9 September 30, 2007 9:06:40 PM
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Lol, multi - I wish I had recommended that before! We've never thought anyone would ever have multiple cards, so we didn't think to handle it. You learn the strangest things in a beta test ...




Yeah, a lot of people do that. For one thing, I've seen / heard of a number of cases where the motherboard's networking port doesn't work / is inferior to a proper nick card. Or just plain got killded when some idiot tried to plug the cord in backwards. ./clobbers said idiot
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Reply #10 September 30, 2007 9:21:32 PM
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Sound reasonable. Regardless, we fixed it so that even if you have multiple cards it will work now
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