Connection Issues with MP
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Evening chaps.
I’ve been trying to get online all evening. Its my first time doing it but I was scheduled for a familiarisation flight with a squadron and fell at the first hurdle. Getting online.
Tried everything I can think of, so did the chap on the other end of teamspeak but we hit a wall and don’t know where to go, so I guess it’s over to you…. I’ll give you all the information I can but if you need anymore then please ask.
I’m running BMS Falcon 4.33.1
I also run the Alternate LauncherI set my firewalls to allow Falcon BMS.exe and IVC, inbound and outbound. (When I ran comms - connect. The firewall warning I had before setting this appeared, after setting it, it no longer showed, leading me to believe this is OK)
Within my router, I set port forwarding for 2934-2937 TCP&UDP for BMS and also 9987-9989 TCP&UDP for IVC.
I ran the simpleporttester.exe program and this confirmed that all ports are open.I attempted to connect to my squadron server with no luck and then to the Veterans server and again no luck “Failed to Connect to Server” is the error message. (my buddy on teamspeak was able to connect to veterans so the problem is definitely my end)
I have triple (plus) checked all IP addresses are correct, I’ve been at this for 2 hours now with no joy.
If it helps at all, this is what shows on the alternate launcher debug window when trying to connect -
*** Creating RAKNET NetworkHandler ***
NETWORK (00.1): Connecting to host 205.161.30.10:2934
NETWORK (00.1): AddSessionNetworkData 255 205.161.30.10:2934 (0)
NETWORK (00.1): SessionNetworkData::Connect()
NETWORK (00.1): PASSED
Calling EndCampaign…
SetFlyState 0
Calling EndCampaign…
SetFlyState 0
WM_ACTIVATE 0And then I get the failed to connect message.
Any Ideas?
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I’m running BMS Falcon 4.33.1
I also run the Alternate LauncherUpdate 1 or update 5?
Same theater?
Try with “original” launcher? (make sure it works ‘clean’, then break it later)
32-bit vs 64-bit?What is the Build# on the lower right hand corner of the main menu? Update 5 should read:
Falcon BMS 4.33.5 (x86/x64) Build 16084
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What kind of connection are you on? If it’s cable then some form of DS-Lite ipv6<->ipv4 natting function might be biting you.
FWIW you no longer need to forward the IVC ports with 4.33.x, 2934-2935 should be sufficient.(1)
Can you try telnetting to the server IP (port 2934, 2935) in a console window and see if you at least get an instant “connection refused”?
As boomer pointed out, please double check you’re on the same theater selection / version and bms update as the server you’re trying to connect to.
All the best, Uwe
PS: If you want to we can test IVC separately (we have a dedicated IVC server available 24/7).
1: Falcon BMS Manual, page 81ff.
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Hi guys,
Thanks for your inputs. .boomer. you wonderful human being you. Although I had updates up to 5 installed and showing on my setup menu, for some reason my splash screen still had update 1 showing. I have no idea why or how that happened but it wouldnt let me reinstall them from the setup program as it says they were already installed….although they weren’t… Helpful.
Anyway, cue a full re installation and so far so good. Splash screen is showing .5 Build 16804 now so I can only assume that was the problem. Thanks for all your help. I will post back when up and running.
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I can confirm that was the problem. Thank you again.
Connected immediately after a fresh install.
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Glad to hear you got it working, enjoy your first online flight