This may seem a bit of a shock, but I play Quake2 all the time without the
quake masq module loaded. I always get good ping times, and never have
problems.
As it stands, quake only queries servers in your address book, not all of
them. I run RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36) here is my ipfwadm rules:
# INIT for IP Masquerading
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
# IP Forwarding Default Policies
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
This is pretty much the defaults from Ambrose's How To.
Hope this helps.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nigel
> Metheringham
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 3:43 AM
> To: David A. Ranch
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [masq] A possible bug in the ip_masq_quake code?
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> } The problem happens when you double-click on the Quake2 entry in the
> } left-hand window to "update the servers". The first or second time,
> } you will get a good list of servers and decently low ping times. If
> } you do this a few more times, all of the sudden, all the ping times
> } goto 9999 and from the Linux server's logs, you see:
>
> } Jan 13 00:07:09 trinity2 kernel: ip_masq_new(proto=UDP): no free
> } ports.
>
> } The only solution I found to this problem is to reboot. I cannot
> } unload the ip_masq_quake module since it is "in use"
>
> I know zilch about quake....
> However I guess its making a UDP connection to each server in turn, and
> that there are a number of servers - guesstimate of the order of a
> thousand plus.
>
> Thats going to open up masq tunnels which with UDP remain until they time
> out.
>
> A workround is probably to set the UDP timeout down to something
> small - a
> few seconds ought to be OK I guess for quake, also for DNS.... what other
> UDP are people putting through their masq?? The quake module would
> possibly be able to diddle with the timeouts as another near solution.
> [or if a signoff was sent as part of the protocol it could close the
> tunnel down]
>
> Nigel.
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