Connectivity Issue

[Damilis]

Originally Posted by Xavius

Problem I find is when I do IPCONFIG I get the following:

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.14
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2

How can I get it to show the actual IP?

Wow, um, dat dunt look right. Few more questions:
1) Are on a home computer or at work?
2) Do you have anyother network adapters on this machine?
3) Is this machine a laptop?
3) Do you know how to get the settings for the DHCP server on your router? If so, please post them!

[Xavius]

Umm here goes:

1) Home Computer, but use it for work as well
2) on this machine I have ethernet or wireless, but only wireless is connected at moment
3) this is a laptop, but I have the same results from IPCONFIG on my desktop as well (on same network)
4) The DHCP details on my router page show up on the LAN config section, it has:
IP Address: 10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
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DHCP Server checkbox is checked
DHCP Address Pool Selection has two options:
System Allocated (selected)
User Defined (not selected)

User Defined Start Address: 10.0.0.4
User Defined End Address: 10.0.0.15
(but these look like its set to System Allocated anyway)
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DHCP Gateway selection:
Automatic (selected)
User Defined (not selected)

User Defined Gateway address (box is left blank)
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Thats about it for DHCP

[Damilis]

Hrm, okay, it looks like the DHCP server has an addy of 10.0.0.2 and is handing out IPs on your LAN in the range of 10.0.04 to 10.0.0.15....

As long as you are surfing the internet without issue then I guess it works! Try these settings then (assuming that your EQEmu server is on the 10.0.0.14 machine:

<!-- Only specify these two if you really think you need to. -->
<address>81.146.63.111</address>
<localaddress>10.0.0.14</localaddress>

....

<database>
<host>10.0.0.14</host>

Also, double check that the Ports are forwarded to 10.0.0.14

[Damilis]

....just dawned on me... are you running on DSL? If so what's the Make & Model of your DSL modem?

[Xavius]

Its Conexant MR4C, changed the settings and now world.exe flashes up and closes again before I can see anything in it.

Error message is:
[08.01. - 16:52:36] Failed to connect to database: Error: #1130: Host 'machine name' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

[Damilis]

LOL okay, open a dos command window and cd over to your eqemu directory. From the cmd window, try world.exe. The world.exe should launch & fail but keep the dos window open.

I suspect it has something to do with permissions.
Try changing the Database connection IP back to 127.0.0.1 or localhost.


Secondly, (and this is the third time I have seen a thread like this in as many days...wierd) you are having connection issues due to your DSL modem being a router in addition to your router being a router. You have two levels of NAT so here are your options:

A) Use DSL as router and shift the Linksys over to act as a simple HUB, using the DHCP & Port forwarding on the DSL modem/router.

-or-

B) Shift the DSL modem/router over to Bridge mode, have the Linksys aquire an IP from your ISP via PPPoE and use the DHCP & port forwarding on the Linksys.


Personally, I prefer (and recommend) B as typically the COTS routers will have 10x more stability, throughput and features than the craptastic DSL modem/routers that come standard issue with most broadband packages. Not to mention that you can Flash the Firmware of Linksys's WRT54G with the 'unsupported Firmware' and make it into one hell of a router!

[Xavius]

Ok, well I shifted the database back to localhost and I managed to get my other computer connected now, all I need is someone to try and connect from outside my network, server name is Elysium if anyone wants to try and connect?