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Re: What port does UT determine ping on?

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From: goPostal
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:27
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"ยงฤร—darts" <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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