Hello, I have Linux for many years and, since 10 month I play Quake III on Internet with my little linux box ;-) Since I brought an HUB I connected my second PC and more to my local network. I use kernel 2.4.19 and SuSE distro with their SuSEfirewall2 that give me some good functionnalities to achieve theses tasks : - NAT for my LAN to the Internet - protection of all non specified ports (tcp&udp) - open thoses ports that I've chosen (ssh&https) I have the following problem : -- when we are 2 playing all run fine but when we are 3 the kernel spend more time in kernel space to deliver packets and Quake lags. A kernel hacker (a friend of mine) tell me that the kernel have to work a lot with all theses packets that Quake sends&receives .... and it would be a race problem in the NAT & filtering code. When there is only 2 connections to Quake servers actives all run fine == the lag is not perceptible ... -- when a box of my LAN connects, my host (the router) could not connect to Quake III server anymore ... When the connection is in the inverse order (my host = route, another box of my LAN) all connect fine. -- when I decide to run eDonkey from my M$ box, it complains about the port 4662 that I've specified in firewall to be open .... and it's not ???? That's all folks ! Thank you in advance ;) Michel
