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Article #191482Re: What port does UT determine ping on?
From: goPostal
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:27
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:27
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"ยงฤรdarts" <sixdartsREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:y7mdnf_1Y_eCXZTXnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@giganews.com... >I gotta problem. I've been on this for a couple of weeks because It's > driving me nuts and I haven't been able to solve it. > > I have been getting disconnected at what seems to be random intervals when > playing UT online. I had reason to think it was hardware... but now I > don't. I replaced it all. I'm on a new NIC, a new gigabit switch, new > cable, and I even swapped out routers today. > > Now, I think it could be related to the fact that I am behind a load > balancing router with more than one internet connection. If UT doesn't > handle all of its traffic through 7777, then maybe I'm running into issues > where some traffic is on one of my public IPs and some traffic is ending > up > on aother public IP. I'm going to guess that could be enough to cause a > problem on either the client or the server side. > > I have 7777 bound to my "main" (read: lowest latency) internet connection. > Ping and Telnet are port 23. - Because of a specific telnet need, I have > port 23 bound to my other internet connection. > > Does UT use port 23 for the ping/latency data? Six, if it does I have never seen it. I have my routers all locked solidly down and I have never opened anything near that and never had a problem.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe08.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: "goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.unreal.tournament References: <y7mdnf_1Y_eCXZTXnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@giganews.com> Subject: Re: What port does UT determine ping on? Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Message-ID: <2qDOl.37781$9w4.23260@newsfe08.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: ajhcoboonebdnpflemaihmdmaafnapij X-Complaints-To: abuse@charter.net X-Trace: chhpdeimhjhhahnfkenaajobffgmphfmfhejbplllkbegfpjajhcoboonebdnpflbdfofdgpkjebbdjemcjgebacfggcjnjnnbofmboedbgefkbfpnpfbamgloapengibgjklipccefckbgb NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:27:26 UTC Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:27:24 -0700 Bytes: 2444 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit