Tonic Trouble and Wingate Client Problem

[stevenscott]

I was wondering if any of you good folks out there has a home network with Wingate V3.05, Win98, and are running the bundled game from Mystique G200, Tonic Trouble. The game runs good with no problems by itself, on the client machine with the Mystique G200 it came with. But, when I try to connect it on the Internet through my Wingate network on the client it will not connect. I can connect and run on the Internet with no problems at at all on my server, which has a Marvel G400, a direct connection, with both dialup and a 1-way SB1200 cable modem, it does say to use port 5000 which I tried but it did not work. I have no problems with any of my computers and applications. I have lots and lots of stuff at all works great. It is just this one application game that is lets you connect to the Ubi Soft servers that will not connect through the Wingage network. The game is very nice and I really recommend it for those with children. It is really worth buying and loads of funs, if you do not recieve it from a game bundle.
Thank you.

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Home:
Server:
I run a Matrox Marvel G400 AGP with an:
Abit BE6 MotherBoard
Win98
Adaptec CD Creator 4
Pentium III 450
128 MB Ram
SB Live
Maxtor 13 GIG HD
2 3com Nic cards
Wingate 3.05
1 Symbios SCSI for my HP Photo Scanner
Boca 56K Int. Modem
Mitsumi 4801-TE CD-R
MS Precision Pro Joystick
Surfboard SB1200 cable modem
Shamrock 17" Monitor
HP OfficeJet Pro 1175Cse 4/1 printer/Scanner/Fax/copier
Note: I have the Matrox Mystique G200 16MB AGP Video Card, stashed away,
That I took out and replaced with the Marvel G400 on 10/13/99.
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Client1:
AbitBX6 MB
Win98
Celeron 300a
Maxtor 6.4 GIG HD
128 MB Ram
Netsurf NIC
SB Live sound card
Teac CDRom
Hercules Thriller AGP Video Card
Boca 56K Int. Modem
MS Precision Pro Joystick
Shamrock 15" monitor
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[Echo|Fox]

WinGate is a windows variant of NAT (network address translation)/ IP Masquerading. And a rather shoddy one, if you ask me. The problem with using a NAT is that you _will_ lose some functionality. Since you don't have a "real" IP address (that being an IP that the internet can directly see), some programs just won't work. Take Baldur's Gate, for example. I tried for weeks to get its multiplayer working behind my NAT and it just didn't work. Whenever I played, i was forced to disconnect my cablemodem from my FreeBSD server (Which runs NAT) and plug it directly into my main PC.
Not an ideal solution, but such is the price we pay.
NAT/IPMasq is essentially a kludgy hack, and unfortunately, not a lot of programmers take into consideration the fact that someone trying to use their product might not have a fully routable IP.
You can always bug your ISP and see if they'll give you a second IP. It usually only costs an extra $5 or $10 a month.

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P3-450@558mhz@2.1v, ABit BE6, 128megs 7.3125ns PC133 SDRAM, SB Live! Value, G400 32meg Dualhead (@120%), Acer ALN-201 PCI 10bT NIC, 6.5gig Seagate Medalist Pro 7200rpm, 13gig Quantum Fireball CR, Yamaha 4416e Burner, Pioneer 10x DVD-ROM, Panasonic e70 17" Monitor, Antec KS-188 24" Tower, 6 year old Honeywell-SUH 101key Keyboard, Logitech Trackman Marble+

[jrj]

Did you never have any problems saving your Tonic Trouble game levels with your Matrox card?

[stevenscott]

Hello,
hehehe, sorry to say but, though it seems to save games ok,,I cannot get past the 1st level, is it me or is the game rigged?
hahahahah,
no problems really, the game is for my little girl, biut I can't even figure it out.....DOH!...
Oh well, no big deal. This was an old post and I completely forgot about it.