Arrrr!

Some of you pirates reported timeout's in the lan lobby of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
This problem is confirmed, and under investigation.

While checking where the timeouts come from, network dumps indicate traffic to the following external ip's.
216.98.48.53 - lb-gconnect.ubisoft.com ( only tcp traffic )
216.98.48.18 - gatorservice.ubi.com ( only udp traffic )
216.98.48.57 - lb-stun-prod.ubisoft.com ( mostly stats queries (http) )
Blocking the above ip/hostnames's is not yet tested, but could be a good start!

Tomorrow i will do some serious testing on this game, and report back.

If you have any idea's or suggestions let me know via the comments.

* Update *
H.A.W.X. s very picky about bandwidth. If hosting fails, let someone else host. ( dont forget to open ports for hawx in firewall )
I have been playing with 3 players total for 2 hrs

Here is the list of supported games which will be continuesly updated.

• Battlefield 1942
• Battlefield Vietnam
• Battlefield 2
• Joint Operations
• Silent Hunter III
• Silent Hunter IV
• Act of War: Direct Action
• Age of Empires
• Age of Empires 2
• Age of Empires 3
• Age of Empires - Conquerors
• Age of Mythology
• Age of Wonders 2
• Alien vs. Predator 2
• America's Army
• ArmedAssault
• Armies of Exigo
• Baldur's Gate
• Battlefield 1942
• Battlefield 2
• Battlefield 2: Special Forces
• Battlezone II
• Brothers In Arms
• Call of Duty
• Call of Duty 2
• Call Of Duty: United Offensive
• Cilviziation 3: Play the World
• Civilization 3: Conquests
• Codename Panzer: Phase One
• Colin McRae Rally 02
• Colin McRae Rally 03
• Colin McRae Rally 04
• Colin McRae Rally 2005
• Command & Conquer: Generals
• Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2-Yuri's Revenge
• Command & Conquer: Renegade
• Counter-StrikeCounter-Strike 1.6 Non-Steam
• Counter Strike: Source
• Crashday
• Crimson Skies
• Deus Ex
• Devastation
• Diablo
• Diablo II
• Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Doom
• Doom 3
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Dungeon Siege 2
• Earth 2160
• Empire Earth
• Empire Earth 2
• Endwar ( Tom Clancy )
• European Air War
• F.E.A.R.
• F1 2002
• Falcon 4: Allied Force
• Far Cry
• FIFA 2005
• FIFA 06
• FlatOut
• Ghost Recon
• Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter
• Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 2
• Grand Theft Auto 2
• Ground Control II
• GT Legends
• GTR - FIA
• GT Racing Simulation
• Half-Life
• Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
• HaloHearts of Iron 2
• Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete
• Heroes of Might and Magic 4: Winds of War
• Hexen
• Hidden and Dangerous 2
• Homeworld 2
• Icewind Dale II
• Imperial Glory
• Insane Isle of Four Winds - Runewars
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• Joint Operations
• Juiced
• Liero Xtreme
• Live for Speed S2 demo
• Locomotion
• LOTR - Battle For Middle Earth
• Mechwarrior 2
• Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault
• Mercedes Benz World Racing
• Microsoft RalliSport Challenge
• Multi Theft Auto
• MX vs. ATV Unleashed
• NASCAR SimRacing 2005
• NBA Live 2005
• Need For Kill
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
• Need For Speed: Porsche unleashed
• Need For Speed: Underground
• Need For Speed: Underground 2
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted
• Neverwinter Nights
• Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide
• Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
• NHL 2002
• NHL 2004
• NHL 2005
• NHL 2006
• Original War
• Outpost 2: Divided Destiny
• Overkill
• Painkiller
• Postal 2: Share the Pain
• Powerslide
• Pro Evolution Soccer 3
• Pro Evolution Soccer 4
• Project Snowblind
• Quake
• Quake 2
• Quake 3 Arena
• Quake 4
• Raven Shield
• Re-Volt
• rFactor
• Rig n Roll
• Rollcage
• Rome Total War
• Sacred
• Scrapland
• Serious Sam
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
• Serious Sam 2
• Settlers 5
• Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
• Silent Hunter III
• Silent Hunter IV
• Soldat
• Soldner
• Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
• Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy
• Star Wars Rebellion
• Starcraft (UDP)
• Starcraft: Broodwar (UDP)
• Stronghold
• Stronghold: Crusader
• Stronghold 2
• Sudden Strike: Resource War
• SWAT 3
• SWAT 4
• System Shock 2
• Toca Race Driver
• Toca Race Driver 2
• Toca Race Driver 3
• Tony Hawk Underground 2
• Top SpinTrackmania
• Trackmania Nations
• Unreal Tournament 2003
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• V8 Supercars
• Vietcong
• Warcraft
• Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
• Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
• Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War
• Warhammer: Dark Omen
• World in Conflict
• World of Warcraft
• Worms World Party
• Worms 2 (TCP/IP)
• X-Wing Alliance
• Xpand Rally

Windows Vista 64bit is not supported! ( unless you can get a Tap adapter running like in Openvpn)

Arrrr! welcome matey's!

As an retired pirate, i have been playing loads of old games over LAN, Games like battlefield-vietnam, Joint Operations, Silent Hunter, ghostrecon and the rainbow six series..

Unfortunatly, not all games worked initially with hamachi so i went and find out about why some games work, and some dont.

After sailing the seven sea's of VPN, this pirate returned and started "Recepies from Hell's Kitchen" a Blog that informs you about the easiest way to play lan-games online, and what games are supported.



Virtual private networking.
Today, with VPN (Virtual Private Networking) you can setup your own LAN over the internet. But as you probably know, Some games are picky when it comes to LAN.

Lets take Hamachi as an example.

Like many vpn tools Hamachi peers usually do not have the same class C ips.
This means that the IPs must match the first 3 octets.
(5.444.111).333 You
(5.444.222).222 Peer

Since hamachi is serving you an ip-adress, its very rare that all your friends have the same class c ipadress.
Another downside of Hamachi is that the free version has some limitations like : small number of participants in a network, networks can become 'full' and need administrative tasks and above all, Hamachi has slow relaying.

Ofcourse, there are alternatives to Hamachi. for example :"Garena, Leaf, Wippien, openvpn and n2n. While some of the names sound familiar, the last one is quite new and unknown.

n2n is a layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network developed by the guys at NTOP.org
N2n is a real basic VPN tool. It's only task is to create a VPN, nothing more.
N2N needs a 'Supernode' to connect to. At this time, there are 2 public supernodes available - but you could setup your own.


EPC gaming preconfigured client

When it comes to information about playing pirated games online, my main source was epc-gaming.com . And to give something back, created these guide/tools for people who want to play lan-games online. i provide you a free preconfigured set of windows tools.
A custom compiled n2n and the n2ngui from vpnhosting.cz

The tool is very simple and straightforward to use.
Install, start and your VPN is ready.

Download the VPN Client here :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~igrabo/epc-virtual.multiplayer.lan.exe

Once installed, start the client and start your game.
Choose Multiplayer - LAN, and start hosting/playing.

For more info & support visit : http://www.epcgaming.com/smf/index.php/topic,13681.0.html