How do I get a game server to display on the master server?
by Weston Elliott · in Torque Game Engine · 02/08/2007 (1:35 pm) · 10 replies
I am trying to get a game server to display on the Master Server and not on LAN. I cant seem to stop the game server from showing up in LAN for some reason. How do I get the game to connect to the master server instead of LAN?
I am using the TNL master server.
Game.exe -dedicated -mission Game/data/missions/stronghold.mis
I am using the TNL master server.
Game.exe -dedicated -mission Game/data/missions/stronghold.mis
#2
02/08/2007 (2:02 pm)
No I have not...
#3
02/08/2007 (2:07 pm)
So how would I get the game to be displayed on the master server instead of LAN? 
#4
02/08/2007 (2:27 pm)
Have someone outside connect to see if it shows up. Right now your game is broadcasting on LAN as a dedicated server. Did you notice that the server is accepting a connection?
#5
But I don't get it. How exactly do I stop the game from broadcasting on LAN?
02/08/2007 (2:31 pm)
The server IS accepting connection. Also I will have somebody run the game server who isn't on my LAN.But I don't get it. How exactly do I stop the game from broadcasting on LAN?
#6
02/08/2007 (3:28 pm)
Okay I had somebody who isn't on my LAN run the game server. Now its just running on their LAN... How do I stop the game server from broadcasting on LAN and get it to broadcast on the master server instead? 
#7
You can not connect from LAN to Internet back to your LAN so you would not be able to connect to your own server if it didn't behave like a LAN server on the LAN.
02/08/2007 (4:56 pm)
Why would you want to do that?You can not connect from LAN to Internet back to your LAN so you would not be able to connect to your own server if it didn't behave like a LAN server on the LAN.
#8
Marc, your responce confuses me. Please describe what LAN is because I may be thinking of something else...
What I am trying to do is setup a game server that somebody in a different house, county, or even state could join if they had a copy of the same game.
02/08/2007 (5:11 pm)
I want other people who are not on my LAN to be able to join the server. I want the game to be broadcast in the master server list so somebody who isn't conected to my network can join the game. Marc, your responce confuses me. Please describe what LAN is because I may be thinking of something else...
What I am trying to do is setup a game server that somebody in a different house, county, or even state could join if they had a copy of the same game.
#9
02/08/2007 (5:25 pm)
What I meant with above: If your game server would not broadcast on local LAN as well, you would not be able to play on your game server. Reason is that if you connect through master server, you would leave your local LAN and redirected by the master server you would try to reenter your local LAN to join. This is technically not possible (with a few exceptions of router that allow that but that are only very very few)
#10
So a game I see under LAN on my computer would be under Master Server on somebody elses computer that isn't on my network?
02/08/2007 (5:29 pm)
I think I see what you mean...So a game I see under LAN on my computer would be under Master Server on somebody elses computer that isn't on my network?
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