No network

[unfa]

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit desktop.

My internet connection is via WiFi from a free hotspot. I know that the hotspot is blocking all ports except common network services. For sure P2P is blocked, and I can't play anythng online also. Maybe WiFi performance is too low to play this seriously, but... eh...

This is what Nexuiz console shows me about my network:

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Unable to query master servers, no suitable network sockets active.
No network
Client using an automatically assigned port
Client opened a socket on address local:2
Client opened a socket on address 0.0.0.0:0
Client opened a socket on address [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]:0

Anybody have any idea if it is possible for me to play Nexuiz online?

EDIT:

I've found out that I can override blocked ports with a proxy bypass (http://www.bypassthat.com), I wonder if game could use the same

[liolak]

the error message you have means that you dont have an IP adress on the interface that nexuiz is using. If you say you can access the internet, it looks like if nexuiz was trying to use your wired interface instead of your wifi one. maybe you can post the output of

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ifconfig

It would help knowing more about your networking setup.

[unfa]

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unfa@unfa-desktop:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:23:0a:60 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:28 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:130774 (130.7 KB)  TX bytes:130774 (130.7 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:4f:6a:04:24:81 
          inet addr:172.20.0.238  Bcast:172.20.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::24f:6aff:fe04:2481/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:98457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:49199022 (49.1 MB)  TX bytes:7931600 (7.9 MB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-4F-6A-04-24-81-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[liolak]

oh well, what i said in my previous post was wrong. I checked what nexuiz gives for network for me when starting up and its also adress 0.0.0.0 except mine is fallowed by :27960 which is the port i want it to use.

If your connection is restricted on ports that you can use, there is that command

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cl_port "whatevernumber"

that can force a given source port for nexuiz.

you could maybe try to fool your isp by setting nexuiz to use port 53 (dns). Unfortunately, If your isp use destination port to filter, that wont help :/
in that case, maybe you can try with the proxy service you mentioned already, to forward udp connection with destination port #53 to the incoming port# of the nexuiz server you wish to connect to. but since not all nexuiz server uses the same default port# 26000, it could be very cumbersome.

hope it helps a little :/

[unfa]

I used it. I found some free ports and tried the 53-rd, but my server list is still empty
I see in console that Nexuiz at startup used given port and no more "No network" messsage.
I tried random numbers like 9999, 2000 etc, some of them were free, but when I used them again (after Nexuiz restart) the were occupied. 53-rd acted like that.

[liolak]

what do you mean by free and occupied ?

as for the server list population, im pretty sure it does not use the same port. its probably a tcp connection to some master server. I dont know much about that, maybe someone can provide more information regarding this. or a forum search might give some idea on how to allow it in your setup.

[FruitieX]

Using a proxy is pretty much out of question, as that will be very unplayable due to massive pings.

[liolak]

^ xD good point

[unfa]

I mean a port is free when Nexuiz can use it (it's not occupied/used by other application). That doesn't mean that the port is open, cos my public hotspot may be blocking it anyway.

BTW: thanks for trying to help, guys

[fraggot]

I have comodo. i just installed nexuiz and comodo asked me what to do about it trying to talk to the internet. nexuiz has all the permission and tries to send UDP but stops.

BUT the server section in Nexuiz is dimmed, and I cant even select it.

I tried turning off comodo, and for some reason i still can't see multiplayer. Nexuiz is set as a trusted application anyway.
what's going wrong?

nexuiz tries sending UDP to the server, but it gives up trying after a few seconds.