[geeks] bridging games

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 @ 12:22 -0500, James Fogg said:

> > Here's a game related question about routers:
> >
> > How do you play a network game across two private LANs?
> >
> > Most game software, if not using a public game server,
> > assumes that all machines are on the same subnet.
> 
> NAT, 

I'm doing that, and it doesn't appear to work.

I have a rdr rule:

rdr hme1 0/0 port <gameport> -> 192.168.1.10 port <gameport>

...rule in place in ipnat.conf. When a game client tries to browse, natd
does send the packets to 192.168.1.10, but the response never happens.

Is that at least the right idea, if not the exact configuration?

> tunnel, 

You mean tunnel from <router>.<gameport> to <game server>.<game port> to
make it work?

How would that be different from using NAT?

> bridge instead of route.

I can't do that, because both LANs are different subnets.

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