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- From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Dog, Arena, Battlezone, and Networks
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 20:17:25 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Message-ID: <lade95INN4tr@bovina.cs.utexas.edu>
- References: <32325@adm.brl.mil> <1992Sep2.200605.27765@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.200605.27765@odin.corp.sgi.com> fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts) writes:
- >Bz uses multicast packets and is throttled to send a maxium of 15 update
- >packets a second. Each packet is around 60 or so bytes long, so the
- >overall bandwidth used is relatively small. Your opinion of whether or
- >not this is flooding the network may differ. :^)
-
- Yeah, it does. I tried to compile it on a Sparc 2 with npgl, but had to cut
- out the multicast stuff. And Sun is supposed to be the network guys...
-
- My, bz is slow on a 4D/20. And how do you get it to work smoothly over
- different networks? We have 4 machines on FDDI and 3 on ethernet. 3 of the
- FDDI machines are also on the ethernet, but to get them to talk to one another
- (since bz uses the default interface), I had to make one of the FDDI/ethernet
- machines a multicast repeater, by changing the config file for some net d
- or another (I forget which at the moment). Anyway, people on the ethernet
- machines seem to quit, then start up again, then quit, etc on all of the FDDI
- machines except the repeater. And they seriously jerk. Is there any way
- to make this smoother?
-
- Is bz in general distribution? I would rather not say where I got my copy.
- And has the "Whoops...I can't fire anymore" bug been fixed? I fixed it
- when I added a new tank type (our favorite these days; Super Stealth, worth
- 150 points).
-
- And don't forget to kill ocean before you start playing; especially if in zoo
- mode. You do run ocean, don't you? Who doesn't? :-)
-
- --
- Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)
-
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