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Log In/Callsign Trouble!

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Whenever I try to log in, about 90% of the time the server will reply with "Password rejected, bad token" or something along those lines. I assure you I'm using the right password and user name. I've been playing for years and never had this problem.

Another problem is that when I am playing, suddenly things will go wrong. I can see the other tanks moving around... I can still move around too and shoot, but it's as if I'm not there. I can type a message but it is not displayed and I see no further messages in the chat box.

Anyone had either problems?

Thanks,

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Post by lodxcol »

The list server was having outages earlier. That's probably why you were getting a bad login token. I don't know about your second issue, though..
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Your second problem has happened to me before, a lot actually. Usually I find out my internet is down or something. Basically, it is because you are lagging VERY high. Check your internet connection when this happens. I could, however, be wrong.
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Post by Grace F »

Wreckage regarding your first problem the only thing I can think of is you may have a proxy preventing you from IDing within BZFlag. Open this file in Notepad or any other text editor (this is the path for a Windows user, if your not on windows still try and find your config.cfg):

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: 
My Documents\My BZFlag Files\2.0\config.cfg


Go down to this line after opening config.cfg:

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#set list http://my.BZFlag.org/db/ 
Now change it to this:

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set list http://my.BZFlag.org:81/db/ 
If this is not a Proxy Error this is will do nothing :)

Now, your 2nd problem could just be lag, I've had similar problems.
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Hmm

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Thanks all... It may be lag but I do not understand why it has suddenly started this past few weeks and never before. I know I don't have a proxy problem.

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Re: Hmm

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Wreckage wrote:Thanks all... It may be lag but I do not understand why it has suddenly started this past few weeks and never before. I know I don't have a proxy problem.

--Wreckage--
And you know this because? Your ISP could have thrown one up, or changed the settings on their existing one. There would be no notification to the end user.
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Wreckage wrote:Thanks all... It may be lag but I do not understand why it has suddenly started this past few weeks and never before. I know I don't have a proxy problem.

--Wreckage--
Do you run windows ?
Do you have an actual virus/worm scanner ?
Do you have a way to monitor what traffic is going out to the internet from your machine/network ?

Your report sounds to me like there is something running on your machine/network where you're not aware of .....
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NoWell wrote:
Wreckage wrote:Thanks all... It may be lag but I do not understand why it has suddenly started this past few weeks and never before. I know I don't have a proxy problem.

--Wreckage--
Do you run windows ?
Do you have an actual virus/worm scanner ?
Do you have a way to monitor what traffic is going out to the internet from your machine/network ?

Your report sounds to me like there is something running on your machine/network where you're not aware of .....
No, I use Linux...
And I'm sure I have a way to monitor the traffic but I haven't used it.
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Post by NoWell »

Oh nice :)

So for a short overview on your machine you can use

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netstat -tu
to see active connections. To monitor your traffic i suggest

tcpdump (on commandline) or

etherreal (grafical, maybe available with the new name wireshark)

To test your routing in between, still ping is my preferred tool. Do a

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ping <name or ip of the server you wand to measure>
and let this run for about 2-3 Minutes (stop it with CTRL+c) it does not harm the server very much. After this you should get a statistic "round trip time" (rtt) which should be equal to the lag you will have on this server, there should be not much difference between the " min/avg/max" values for rtt. Also there will be a percentage value for "package loss". In a perfect environment package loss should be 0%. In real world i would expect 0-2% package loss and any value above shows there is a network problem in between your machine and the server.

Here is a example ping statistic from home to my server, which is quite good for a DSL connection :)

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imat@brainbug:~> ping bzflag.disconnected.de
PING bzflag.disconnected.de (80.190.246.149) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=48.3 ms
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=48.7 ms
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=48.5 ms
......
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=98 ttl=51 time=48.0 ms
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=99 ttl=51 time=48.3 ms
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=100 ttl=51 time=48.3 ms
64 bytes from ipx10512.ipxserver.de (80.190.246.149): icmp_seq=101 ttl=51 time=47.8 ms

--- bzflag.disconnected.de ping statistics ---
101 packets transmitted, 101 received, 0% packet loss, time 100151ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.724/48.507/49.417/0.418 ms
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Post by Spazzy McGee »

Wreakage
I very much suspect your login problem is your ISP caching port 80.

You just need to tell BZFlag to login in on port 81 instead - your ISP probably doesn't cache port 81.

To do this, do what GraceF stated above.
Grace F wrote:

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: 
My Documents\My BZFlag Files\2.0\config.cfg


Go down to this line after opening config.cfg:

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#set list http://my.BZFlag.org/db/ 
Now change it to this:

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set list http://my.BZFlag.org:81/db/ 
GraceF: However, it's not a proxy thing - many ISPs cache port 80, it being the default http port.
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Thanks, it will take me some time to try all this but I shall. :)
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