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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Jimbob on September 29, 2006, 02:33:12 am

Title: Blocked ICMP
Post by: Jimbob on September 29, 2006, 02:33:12 am

It seems to me that the client pings the laanx.fragnetics.com server to see if it's available.  Is this true?
My silly school firewall blocks ICMP protocol so I can't ping anything and no one can ping me... but I can get online just fine with any program or game as long as it doesn't need to ping.

If anyone can help that would be great. :thumbup:  For now I'm trying to get a VPN server set up at home so I can connect to it and bypass this firewall.

Oh, if there is a way to make the client connect without actually pinging laanx.fragnetics.com that would be great.  Maybe trick it somehow.

Thanks

Title: Re: Blocked ICMP
Post by: steuben on September 29, 2006, 02:54:52 am

yeah build a new client from source. but then the connection may not be relaiable.

Title: Re: Blocked ICMP
Post by: Bereror on September 29, 2006, 07:38:22 am

AFAIK we don't use ICMP pings. It is a normal UDP message like any other messages that the client and server send out.