Freelancer Lan Game Help

alphaomega16 · 31 Dec 2006 at 22:34

I am really confused at to whats happening here.

I have always used FLServer to create a lan game for me to play on (Loads of fun ) but for some reason I just installed it on my computer and its not picking my IP address up properly.

This is my layout on network card.

IP Address = 192.***.*.*
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
IP Address = fe80::248:54ff::fe1b::******
Default Gateway 192.***.*.*

For some reason its not picking up the 192 number instead its saying the IP address is the fe80:248:54ff thing.

Can anyone render any assistance please.

Steeps · 31 Dec 2006 at 22:41

was just playing FL online about 10mins ago! i'll see if i can look anything up for you.

edit: just tried hosting my own server and it came up with the ip address, can you still connect to the server?

alphaomega16 · 31 Dec 2006 at 22:43

Steeps said:
was just playing FL online about 10mins ago! i'll see if i can look anything up for you

Thanks

for some reason its not showing the correct IP address it does for internet games but when I scroll down to mine its just has that letter and numbers crap

Hector · 31 Dec 2006 at 23:20

have you tried using the fldirectip.hta found in the exe folder?

alphaomega16 · 31 Dec 2006 at 23:27

Hector said:
have you tried using the fldirectip.hta found in the exe folder?

What do I use to open it ???

On another note I plugged my games drive in and this is the IP stuff from ingame and cmd prompt.

Command Prompt

Inside Freelancer

Will post pics of command prompt on standard use HDD when I plug it in.

Hector · 31 Dec 2006 at 23:41

double click it and 'Microsoft HTML Application Host' should execute it..

which is basicaly this file:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mshta.exe

it's VB script in HTML.. so only ever run trusted hta's.

alphaomega16 · 31 Dec 2006 at 23:56

ok this is my every day drive that is not dedicated to games.

Command Prompt

WTF is with all that info and WHY is there 2 IP Addresses ?

also will that manuaal IP thing work if I want to create a lan game myself and then connect to it using the same computer ?

Just tried it and it doesnt seem to work

Hector · 1 Jan 2007 at 00:06

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/teredo.mspx
to do with NAT it seems..

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 00:14

ok now I am really confused by that link.

Looks like I might need to reformat.

Games Drive is XP Pro with SP2
Standard Use Drive is Windows MCE.

dont suppose you can understand that link and tell me of a simple fix other than trying a reformat do ya ?

Is Teredo a term or program because I have never heard of it before.

I dont know why I cannot see my own IP address in a lan game I have created on my games drive and not in my main drive.

Or is this a problem caused by Windows Media Centre Edition ?

Hector · 1 Jan 2007 at 01:10

try, in your local area connection properties, this screen:
http://www.it.northwestern.edu/images/support/winlacpropgen_1.gif
see if it listed there and untick it..

i wouldn't uninstall it quite yet.. it may be required for some network app/game and you just never knew it was there.

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 01:45

If I untick that I cannot do anything regarding the internet its like I have turned my modem off

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 01:53

ok I just logged into the guest account on the computer and where it says the second IP address is made of numbers and letters there is just a ? there and I can connect to my lan game I create.

So something must have happened on this computer to make that second IP address appear and make the program use that ???

I just cannot figure out what.

Dont suppose you know how I can get rid of that Pseudo crap do ya?

WOOOOOOOOHHHHOOOOOOOO

Got it sorted

To uninstall IPv6 from a computer using the command prompt
1. Open Command Prompt.
2. At the command prompt, type ipv6 uninstall, and then press ENTER.

Its the MS IPv6 thing, DAMN YOU MS.

mark_t50 · 1 Jan 2007 at 02:15

That looks a bit like a IPv6 address, you don't by any chance have IP Version 6 installed do you ? This might be causing you some problems.

If you right click on 'my network places', select 'properties' and then check your network interface's properties to see if IP Version 6 is listed on there, if it is then I think you should be able to remove it. Be careful incase you need this installed for some strange reason, I could be entirely wrong and would hate for you to make things worse.

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 02:17

yeah I did dont know how the **** it got on my system but hey its gone now and I can continue freelancer

Hector · 1 Jan 2007 at 10:25

sorry chap i was awake at one moment and the next i was out like i light.. glad you got it sorted though :cool:

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 14:15

Dont know why your saying sorry, but I would like to say thanks for the help if it wasn for that pseudo teredo thing you linked me to I probably never would have solved it.

Many thanks to you

Hope you had a nice new year.

Hector · 1 Jan 2007 at 14:35

your welcome and have a good year yourself :cool:

i ment sorry incase you'd been sat waiting for a reply during the early hours as i was all active at one moment and then gone the next

alphaomega16 · 1 Jan 2007 at 16:48

I will try.

Maybe 26 is my lucky number hehehe