Can not find other LAN player.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:35 pm

I want to play O.C. with my brother, but I can't seem to get one to connect to another.

One computer can never see the server on LAN, or even in friends... why are the servers not being seen?

BigFoot · Post by **BigFoot** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:13 am

sv_lan 0 (should be 1)

maybe that?

and try connecting via ip

Datastream · Post by **Datastream** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:12 pm

sv_lan has to be 1.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:07 pm

I thought so, but it didn't help...

Is there anything not-game related that could cause this?
Router problem?
Firewall?

Datastream · Post by **Datastream** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:36 pm

I think its a router problem. What kind of cables did you use?

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:07 am

Ugh, the cables won't be the problem.

Maybe because me and him are plugged into a router that is plugged into another router.

Me Him
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[router]
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[router] ))wireless)) other computers.
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[internet]

Steam · Post by **Neico** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:04 am

My network is build like this:

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Modem/Router (Speedport) - Router - Router - Dad
       |                    |         |
       - Laptop             - Swtich  ------ Sister
                            |   |     |
                            |   |     ------ Mom
                            |   |
                            |   ------------ Me
                            |   |
                            |   ------------ My Server
                            |   |
                            |   ------------ XBox
                            |   |
                            |   ------------ MediaReciever
                            |
                            ---------------- Printer/Scanner/Fax

so using more routers DOES work, you jsut need to set it up right (btw. my Provider says that the MediaReciever doesn't work when not plugged into the Modem itself, but as you can see it's far away from that and DOES work, so bla)

Edit: fu at that dumbshit formatting here...
Edit2: fixed....

BigFoot · Post by **BigFoot** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:37 pm

i guess you already tried connecting like "connect *ip* " after setting sv_lan 1??

does the console show you any specific errors or something?

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:39 pm

Nope, just that the server does not respond.

Datastream · Post by **Datastream** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:32 pm

Did you try to connect to the ip the computer has IN the network? And not the external IP.

So it has to be something like 192.168.0.xxx I think.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:46 pm

Yeah, I tried, it failed to connect.

Steam · Post by **Neico** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:51 pm

well i had a smiliar problem yesterday since my old router had as protocoll option "both" for port forwarding so i never bothered about TCP and UDP but then i noticed that something didn't work so i double checked and noticed that i had the port 27015 set as TCP but srcds uses UDP as that port :/, i doubt that it helps, just dropping it in

Datastream · Post by **Datastream** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:41 pm

I have a friend and he has no problem connecting to his sister in CSS. He just goes to the serverbrowser and then LAN. He didn't do anything. :p

Its probably what Neico said.
27015 should be UDP.