[Opensim-dev] Help with Diagnosing Connectivity Issues

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Well, it's not very OpenSim dev but I'm sure we can make an exception this
once :-)

Best of luck with this venture, guys.


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>
wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> our aplogies if this comes across as spam; it's certainly not our
> intention.
>
> We just wanted to point out that we've just entered public beta with
> 'Tribal Server Desktop Edition', a concept that will well double as a
> helpful tool to debug connectivity issues for OpenSim installations -
> especially something that could help newcomers get an OpenSim region up and
> running fast.
>
> Basically, what we have is an easy-to-install easy-to-setup OpenSim-based
> desktop region application that auto-senses external IP and connects to our
> grid.
>
> On connection, the Nexus does a ping-back on the UDP, HTTP and Remoting
> ports to see that there's actually a region answering. If any connectivity
> test fails, it reports on the failing port(s) and offers generic help.
>
> At the moment, the application is Windows only, but for Windows users it's
> quite an useful tool to diagnose OpenSim connectivity problems, as it runs
> out-of-the-box on 2003/XP/Vista, both 32 and 64 bit, registers with Vista
> UAC, opens up windows firewall and supports UPnP for NAT traversal.
>
> Bottom line, if you can get your Windows machine up and running Tribal
> Server Desktop Edition, you know what you should check to get your OpenSim
> configuration up with the same settings.
>
> See http://tribalnet.se for downloads and more information.
>
> Best Regards,
> Stefan (lbsa71) and Darren (MW)
> Tribal Media AB
>
> PS: With this, Stefan's _dad_ managed to install and get a public region
> up on his home computer with no intervention from our part. That certainly
> says something. :D
>
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