[Wine] C&C Red Alert 3 - Lan (and also hamachi) play

[Austin English]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM, jorl17 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello to all
>
> I've been playing Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (LEGAL version of the game) with wine and it has been working very well.
>
> However, I decided to try and play LAN (linux-to-linux) and did not manage to do it. There was a time where I could see my name twice on the list (should see once) plus my other pc's name. So this meant that:
>
> PC A
>
> Sees PC A TWICE and PC B ONCE
>
> PC B
>
> Sees PC B TWICE and PC A ONCE
>
> Whenever I created a game and tried to connect to it, it said 'connection tiemd out'.
>
>
> Later on, I tried to play via Hamachi with a friend of mine (linux-to-windows) and stumbled upon one more problem. One of the problems seems to be in the /etc/hosts file. Whenever I set my IP (in /etc/hosts) to hamachi's one, I can see him but he can't see me. The opposite happens if I set my IP to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) (that is, he sees me, I don't see him).
>
> So does anybody know where the problem is? Is there a fix for this?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-0344b4325219c69636aeffeaa3596d6855283afd

> One thing I noticed (probably doesn't matter) was this message (not Wine's message, as I'm running WINEDEBUG=-all):
>
>> WARNING: Trying to create a socket of type SOCK_RAW, this will fail unless you have special permissions.
>> WARNING: Trying to create a socket of type SOCK_RAW, this will fail unless you have special permissions.
>> WARNING: Trying to create a socket of type SOCK_RAW, this will fail unless you have special permissions.

That message is from Wine...Wine has 4 debugging message types:
err, fixme, warn, trace and message.

WINEDEBUG repects the first 4. MESSAGE is used very rarely, you just
found one of the few times it is used :-).

-- 
-Austin