Peer-to-peer over LAN

[argophontes]

I’ve been trying to cobble together how to do this from bits of info scattered around the internet, but I still can’t get it to work. I’m trying to set up a Warmaching/Hordes game over my LAN (i.e. behind my router), since I live in Korea and the connection to the vassal serve is lousy. I’ve yet to have either computer receive an invite, no matter what combination of IP/port I put in. Both boxes are set to P2P, and both have started offline games. What am I missing?

[barbanera]

Start °online* games?

[irishwulf]

I’ve done this successfully many times, at least with 2-person games:

1. Set both clients to P2P.
2. Open the game, choose ‘Look for a game online’ in the wizard.
3. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on computer A to obtain an IP address and port. It looks like in 3.1.19 this is now your public IP - previously I recall it displaying your private IP.
4. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on the other computer B and enter the IP/port obtained in step 3.
5. Create a room, start a game, synchronize.

-Seth

[bdgza]

Even with P2P it still connects to the VASSAL server. At least when initially going online in P2P mode.

[irishwulf]

@bdgza

Even with P2P it still connects to the VASSAL server. At least when initially going online in P2P mode.

Interesting, but at a cursory glance it only seems to make some basic HTTP requests, and it doesn’t seem to mind much if it never gets a response from the server. So, is that a problem?

[argophontes]

@irishwulf

I’ve done this successfully many times, at least with 2-person games:

1. Set both clients to P2P.
2. Open the game, choose ‘Look for a game online’ in the wizard.
3. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on computer A to obtain an IP address and port. It looks like in 3.1.19 this is now your public IP - previously I recall it displaying your private IP.
4. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on the other computer B and enter the IP/port obtained in step 3.
5. Create a room, start a game, synchronize.

-Seth

Problem with this: since we’re behind a router, we have the same IP/port…

[bdgza]

@argophontes

@irishwulf

I’ve done this successfully many times, at least with 2-person games:

1. Set both clients to P2P.
2. Open the game, choose ‘Look for a game online’ in the wizard.
3. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on computer A to obtain an IP address and port. It looks like in 3.1.19 this is now your public IP - previously I recall it displaying your private IP.
4. Use the ‘Invite Players’ button on the other computer B and enter the IP/port obtained in step 3.
5. Create a room, start a game, synchronize.

-Seth

Problem with this: since we’re behind a router, we have the same IP/port…

Use your LAN ip that you get from your router.

[bdgza]

@irishwulf

@bdgza

Even with P2P it still connects to the VASSAL server. At least when initially going online in P2P mode.

Interesting, but at a cursory glance it only seems to make some basic HTTP requests, and it doesn’t seem to mind much if it never gets a response from the server. So, is that a problem?

I don’t know.

[argophontes]

@bdgza

Use your LAN ip that you get from your router.

Where do I get a port number?

[bdgza]

@argophontes

@bdgza

Use your LAN ip that you get from your router.

Where do I get a port number?

The port number is still 5050. So look up the local IP address in Network Connections for computer B. For example 192.168.1.15. Then on computer A invite computer B with “192.168.1.15:5050”.

[argophontes]

@bdgza

@argophontes

@bdgza

Use your LAN ip that you get from your router.

Where do I get a port number?

The port number is still 5050. So look up the local IP address in Network Connections for computer B. For example 192.168.1.15. Then on computer A invite computer B with “192.168.1.15:5050”.

That worked! Thank you so much!