I am using an Airlink ar325W - this is a low end consumer router/wifi that I bought on sale for $14.95!<br><br>I HAVE found that the box running OpenSim must be in the "DMZ" (open access to ALL ports) AND I need each port individually routed to that IP address (192.161.1.107 in my case). <br>
<br>It appears that the handshaking process when you connect to a region opens a random port in the 60000 range which it needs to connect.<br><br>You also need to be sure that EVERY reference both in the config,ini (myworld.ini for diva) and the regions.ini point to the SAME URL.<br>
<br>In my case that is normally: <a href="http://mars-simulator.hobby-site.org:9000/wifi">http://mars-simulator.hobby-site.org:9000/wifi</a> (polite visitors welcome :-) ). <br><br>This weekend I did a demo at a SciFi convention with no Internet connection and changed both INI files to "192.168.1.107". Everything worked fine after a few minutes of waiting for the old settings to timeout. <br>
<br>Naturally Hypergrid did not work, but everything else worked just fine!<br><br>I have just reset everything to the normal external address <a href="http://mars-simulator.hobby-site.org:9000/wifi">http://mars-simulator.hobby-site.org:9000/wifi</a> and things started up with no problems - so far. :-)<br>
<br>I definitely suggest setting up the Diva distro to start with if only to resolve these kinds of issues and give you a "gold standard" for reference!<br><br>In my case (10 regions, max 6 users at once) the Diva distro has proven more than adequate for my needs. <br>
<br>I am using a low end AMD Athlon II X3 445 (3 core) processor (Fry's for $64) which handles the CPU load nicely (more in the wiki ASAP)<br><br>Karen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Damon Hindermann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damonh74@gmail.com">damonh74@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">If your client and server are on the same side of the router, then you must<br>
have loopback enabled on the router. Check to be sure your router is on the<br>
"approved" list since opensim does something very funky in its<br>
communications.<br>
<br>
I had my router set up with loopback and had the manufacturer verify that<br>
loopback was enabled and that rules were being created. Everything was as<br>
it should be, however, opensim still did not work. I finally purchased a<br>
Linksys router that runs DD-WRT. I needed a router that provides many more<br>
services than a consumer router provides and DD-WRT does most.<br>
<br>
I hope that this eventually this gets fixed in opensim since other<br>
client/server applications work fine without needing "special" routers.<br>
Until then, getting a router on the approved list is the only way.<br>
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-Damon<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Configure an OpenSim to use the ROBUST services<br>
<br>
<br>
just a little update:<br>
<br>
have now tried adding the external IP address as the InternalAddress in the<br>
region.ini as suggested by Ben and have added the entry in the host file,<br>
still getting up to the "Waiting for region handshake..." then the usual<br>
"we're having trouble connecting, there may be a problem with your internet"<br>
<br>
error in the emerald client but i have also tried metabolt (text client) and<br>
i get "avatar did not rezz as expected".<br>
<br>
now the opensim server is running from my friends ADSL line with a 512mb<br>
upload speed in theory i should still be able to connect and the avatar<br>
should rezz (maybe slowly) or is the upload too small to support a<br>
connection?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
James<br>
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:42 PM<br>
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Subject: [Opensim-users] Configure an OpenSim to use the ROBUST services<br>
<br>
> Hi Folks<br>
><br>
> My friend and I are working on setting up Opensim in grid mode<br>
> (robust), so everything seems to be working okay when accessed the<br>
> grid from the lan using -loginuri <a href="http://XXXXXX.dyndns.org:8002" target="_blank">http://XXXXXX.dyndns.org:8002</a> for<br>
> the login url but when I try to access the grid from an external location<br>
it hanging :<br>
><br>
> [14:11] Logging in. Viewer may appear frozen. Please wait.<br>
> [14:11] Logging in...<br>
> [14:11] Processing Response...<br>
> [14:11] Initializing World...<br>
> [14:11] Initializing multimedia...<br>
> [14:11] Decoding images...<br>
> [14:11] Waiting for region handshake...<br>
> [14:11] MOTD: United we stand, divided we fall.<br>
><br>
> with a message that there was a problem while trying to connect.<br>
><br>
> Ports 9000-9010 tcp and udp are open on both router and xp firewall,<br>
> so my next line of thought was the region.ini there is no mention<br>
> (that i can find) that says you can't still using the 9000 range in<br>
> the region.ini when in grid mode, here is an example of the<br>
> region.ini, do you have to specify an InternalAddress if your going to<br>
> access the grid from an external network<br>
><br>
> [Europe 1]<br>
> RegionUUID = "397fd0f8-4279-48d6-8ce2-573d915630dd"<br>
> Location = "4168,4665"<br>
> InternalAddress = "0.0.0.0"<br>
> InternalPort = 9000<br>
> AllowAlternatePorts = False<br>
> ExternalHostName = "<a href="http://XXXXXX.dyndns.org" target="_blank">XXXXXX.dyndns.org</a>"<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for the help.<br>
><br>
> James<br>
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