AppleTalk games over the internet — #13

Post #13 by PowerPup

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 - 07:28
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/appletalk-games-over-the-internet.19277/

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I saw in the logs you successfully connected and exchanged packets.

Neato. :-D

It'll just show up in the chooser under appletalk, assuming you've selected ethertalk as your appletalk device.

Yeah, I was using chooser on both laptops, don't know why it wasn't showing.

This software should not affect local traffic. In theory with such a connection the PBG3 and 5300c should have been able to see an iBookG3 on my side of the connection. However, it sounds as if there is a local networking issue if the two are directly connected and are having problems. I have also not tested with the localtalk to ethertalk bridges.

I've been able to connect the two directly without having these issues, so it probably had something to do with my configuration.

My guess it really got slow because it was doing a lot of loop-backs and traffic. (Both client being behind the same router to the internet.)

The PB G4 and PM G4 were both sending packets to the server, ignoring duplicates which the other repeated since they were on the same LAN. It was probably just creating a lot of appletalk traffic on the same network. So the PB G3 and PB 5300 had to filter though all that extra noise. Making it really slow. At least that's my theory.

No wait, The second appletalk network was on the PB G4's ethernet port, making the two networks completely separate. So... Must have been both clients being behind the same router, maybe using wireless contributed to the sluggishness.

If I had both clients connected to the internet separately, it probably would work a lot better.

As to why I'm not seeing your iBook, I don't know. Unless, I need to open a specific port on my router. (Whichever port you set the server to, 1900 I think...)

Anyway, thanks for sharing this. Having a lot of fun! :rambo: