[Opensim-users] Getting rid of NAT Loopback uncapable routers...

[Miss Suzhanna Rossini]

> Miss Suzhanna Rossini a écrit :
> >> Miss Suzhanna Rossini a écrit :
> >>>> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:04 +0200, Olish Newman wrote:
> >>>>> Hello !
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm looking for a way to be able to TP inside locally hosted
> >> regions
> >>>>> (at
> >>>>> home) attached to an external grid.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> People having a router that is NOT Nat Loopback capable can't TP
> >>>>> inside their regions, but others can do.
> >>>>> There's a way for Linux using iptables. But Microsoft Windows
> >>>> terribly
> >>>>> lacks this functionnality.
> >>>> If you're absolutely committed to forcing yourself to do this the
> >> hard
> >>>> way by using Windows, you might see if you can't override the DNS
> >> for
> >>>> the hostname of your sim on your router to give a local address
> for
> >>>> that DNS entry instead of the one visible to the rest of the
> world.
> >>>
> >>> But that isn't very hard.. I just added my local IP addresses and
> >> host
> >>> names
> >>> in \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and off I went. Of course,
> you
> >>> cannot
> >>> do that on the server running the simulators, but only on your
> >> workstation
> >>> that you use to connect to your grid.
> >> Thanks Miss Suzhanna, thanks Paul for your answers !
> >>
> >> Indeed I do use the hosts file but without success (on Vista). When
> I
> >> try in my web browser to visit
> >> http://mypublicdomainname.tld:9000 I get the OOpss page from
> opensim.
> >> But nothing when I try
> >> to TP... anyway other people outside my LAN can :s I have to try on
> XP.
> >>
> >> Thanks again !
> >
> >
> > That's strange...
> > I run my workstation on Vista Business x64, and it goes perfectly
> fine. Or
> > rather, it WAS running fine.. ;-) A friend of mine helped me set up
> an old
> > computer as a router/firewall, using IP-Cop software, and apparently
> that
> > handles the "route-back" issues just fine.
> Sounds like your router is not NAT Loopback capable. Though IPCop is
> free, it still requires an additional computer to run.
> My goal is finding a solution to allow people with such uncapable
> routers to have their regions running and being able to TP inside from
> locally without the need of additional computers or paid hardware.
> 
> What do you think about a proxy software installed locally or some kind
> of ? :s

Could be, but then again, an old computer serving as a gateway/router/firewall is in many cases cheaper than a stand-alone router box.. ;-)
The old machine I use is a based on AMD Athlon and 256MB memory with a 4GB hard disk.. Won't set your wallet back more than €20.. ;-)

/Suz