We played yesterday race with 5 linux/wine servers and the results were great:
wine 0.9.39
5 servers -> 4 with 31 people and 1 with 22
We usually had the UDP packet loss issue with crowded servers but everything went ok yesterday. The servers had been running for only 4 or 5 days though. I'll report if the UDP issue appears again.
Sorry for resurrecting this one guys, but I've got an interesting issue that I've noticed a few times, but thought nothing of until today.
It would appear that if you send absolute junk at LFS under wine, either over the InSim port, or the usual ports its configured to use, the dedi will stop servicing clients and start doing "something else". The reason why this is a concern is that whilst I was away over the weekend some little bugger from a comcast IP started sending shit at the UDP port that LFS was using, clocking up about 16GB Sunday and a further 5GB this morning - which I swiftly stopped when I got at my computer this morning. Now, LFS didn't really transmit anything out as far as I can tell, as the outgoing traffic is pretty devoid of anything unusual and nothing else odd has been picked up on the server. However, it just seems pretty weird that someone would do this without some sort of gain.
So, has anyone else noticed this, or any other strange behaviour?
It was, but unless you run it on a box with an IP of 67.165.40.4 and managed to point it at the COMPLETELY WRONG PORT, and put no sensible checking in, and didn't bother to check what it was doing, then I doubt it.
Either way, its blocked at the firewall and the transfer stopped about 30 seconds after I did this.
I upgraded wine to Debian unstable's version as of two weeks ago, I think it was 0.9.51 or 0.9.52. Unfortunately for some reason it didn't seem as stable as the one I was using before that. Servers were starting, but after some time (in the amount of hours, I think) they stopped by themselves without anything informative in the log file.
Then again, it's perhaps the strange way by which I'm starting them up. (I use screen, wineconsole --backend=curses, Start Windowed 0, /dedicated=invisible).
In any case, I've reverted to my favorite stable version: 0.9.34-1 (Debian Unstable). This has been running great and with no problems at all, with uptime of MONTHS for me!
I have been itching to get a server running on mu Ubuntu rig, but the problem is that I can't even get the WINE installation to even START, and yes, I got the Ubuntu version, and I very carefully followed the instructions.
Without wanting to be rude, it has been almost a year since this thread was created and we know what the issues were, via this thread, and that the issues have been sorted in "recent" versions.
Bumping it without raising a new issue, and saying that "it works fine" is fairly irrelevant at present.