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

[jorl17]

ThE_TemPLaR wrote:
> Well, I found a solution and posted it on the appdb's page of Red Alert 3. 
> 
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14371
> 
> Here's a copy of the informations I posted on the Red Alert's Appdb webpage :
> 
> 
> > Thanks to raphael, here's a mini "how to play on LAN to RA3 with Wine + windows users, when the LAN is a VPN"
> > 
> > My hostname, in this tutorial, is TACHIBANA.
> > 
> > 1. First establish a VPN. I use a bridged VPN set up with OpenVPN. It works fine.
> > The VPN client created a tap0 interface with the IP 11.0.0.3.
> > 2. Re-route packets for 255.255.255.255 to your VPN interface (Here tap0)
> > # route add host 255.255.255.255 dev tap0
> > 3. In /etc/hosts, remove any reference to your hostname (TACHIBANA here) and, on the first line, add :
> > 11.0.0.3 TACHIBANA
> > 4. Compile this little hack made by Raphael : http://hughes.homelinux.org:8080/~raphael/bind_hack.tar.bz2 . On a 64 bits machine, here's how I compiled this little hack :
> > $ cc bind_hack.c -o bind_hack.so -O2 -fPIC -Wall -shared -lc -nostdlib -m32
> > 5. Launch RA3 with wine, while preloading this little hack.
> > /path/to/RA3$ LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/bind_hack/bind_hack.so wine RA3
> > 6. Connect on the Lobby and check if you see your friends.
> > 7. Create a game, let the users connect, choose their team, ...
> > 8. Launch the game
> > 9. Play
> > 10. ?????
> > 11. Profit !
> > 
> > For info, here are my network informations :
> > TACHIBANA:~# ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:09:c3:25:9e
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> >          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> >          Interruption:17
> > 
> > lo        Link encap:Boucle locale
> >          inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
> >          adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
> >          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:21802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:21802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
> >          RX bytes:1104381 (1.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1104381 (1.0 MiB)
> > 
> > tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 66:b6:cc:e4:c2:23
> >          inet adr:11.0.0.3  Bcast:11.0.0.255  Masque:255.255.255.0
> >          adr inet6: fe80::64b6:ccff:fee4:c223/64 Scope:Lien
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC ALLMULTI MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:76098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:63247 errors:0 dropped:1122 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 lg file transmission:100
> >          RX bytes:29197572 (27.8 MiB)  TX bytes:22467044 (21.4 MiB)
> > 
> > wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:3c:12:cd:75
> >          inet adr:192.168.1.50  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Masque:255.255.255.0
> >          adr inet6: fe80::21f:3cff:fe12:cd75/64 Scope:Lien
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:131405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:125745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> >          RX bytes:72057503 (68.7 MiB)  TX bytes:41252460 (39.3 MiB)
> > 
> > wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1F-3C-12-CD-75-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> >          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> > 
> > 
> > TACHIBANA:~# route
> > Table de routage IP du noyau
> > Destination     Passerelle      Genmask         Indic Metric Ref    Use Iface
> > 255.255.255.255 *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 tap0
> > 11.0.0.0        *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 tap0
> > 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
> > link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 wlan0
> > default         neufbox         0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0
> > 
> > TACHIBANA:~# cat /etc/hosts
> > 11.0.0.3 TACHIBANA
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> > 
> > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> > fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> > 
> > # dpkg -l wine
> > [...]
> > ii  wine                                  1.1.21~winehq1-1                      Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer
> > 
> > System : Debian Sid
> 


I could kiss you! Wait, I WILL kiss you!!

Thank you so much for that.

I was really close, in fact, I had done the exact same thing before (except that the shared library was programmed by me, but the purpose was the same).

The only difference between what I did and what you is that I never tried to use that exact combination (hamachi ip in hosts and hack). I managed to get my friend in my game when I made it bind to 0.0.0.0 with my /etc/hosts, but it would fail, since the packages weren't being sent to my IP after that.

Thank you very much, once more!! 

This solves LAN and Hamachi!