pw server on 2 PCs

[mrainor]

please tell me how to divide the right files to the server it was not on one PC and the two PCs?
sorry for my bad English

[343]

This will be self explanatory if you look at all of the config files for each 'daemon'. Any time you want to re-locate a 'daemon' to a different physical server you just have to make sure that it will still have connections with the other 'daemons' that it's supposed to.

So you will need to go through all the config files to set it up, but it would actually be rather simple to do since all you'll have to do is point to the new location by I.P. of X 'daemon' - Y 'daemon'

[Zorno]

Just wanted to say that doing that is a very high security risk if those machines only communicate vie the internet. If they are locally connected its ok.

[343]

Zorno is correct on that. The ONLY 'daemon' you want available to the WAN is GLINKD (and you do not want the others communicating with or open to the WAN for ANY reason)...

[mrainor]

hosts also need to edit?
PCs connected via LAN

[343]

hosts also need to edit?
PCs connected via LAN

Yes...

[mrainor]

thanks for the help

[bobsobol]

Mind if I clarify? When you say LAN, you mean firewalled from the internet, and preferably within a NAT, so that any machine on the internet will see them as one machine, or not at all.

Having said that, VPN with a sufficiently encrypted tunnel should be secure enough? (I know banks will do it, but they have well paid techs to keep that connection secure) It may well degrade performance more than an otherwise overburdened single server if the link is slow. (and a secure link will be) Not sure what the bandwidth requirement is for such links between PW daemons.

[Zorno]

Having said that, VPN with a sufficiently encrypted tunnel should be secure enough? (I know banks will do it, but they have well paid techs to keep that connection secure) It may well degrade performance more than an otherwise overburdened single server if the link is slow. (and a secure link will be) Not sure what the bandwidth requirement is for such links between PW daemons.

VPN tunnel are the same as open internet in this case, because the daemons still should only communicate on intranet and not internet. Doesnt matter if the players use VPN or not.

BTW better dont use Hamachi as VPN for PW servers. 1. The free Version only supports 8 players, 2. it eats up bandwith and ressources.
OpenVPN is a good solution using the 10.x.x.x network up to 256*256*256 players ( which im pretty sure are too much for our servers )

[343]

VPN for players makes absolutely no sense =\ If anything you want to keep players OFF the VPN or LAN that the servers run on...!

What he is saying (if I am correct, is) he is just pointing out that you do indeed desire to operate all the PW daemons from within one LAN, behind NAT and a Firewall - or if for any or whatever reason you did have to use external servers for each of the daemons you would have to use a pretty high security VPN to avoid 'problems' (hackers)... Similar to how banks operate (&& ATMs anyone)... As he also pointed out though, the link speeds (ping) will be degraded so much on a truly secure VPN that running it on a single underpowered machine would probably still be a better option...

I couldn't tell you what type of connection the daemons truly need to each other bobsobol, as I've always ran them all on a single machine.

The only reason I could even see running them on separate machines is due to (ofc) the high amount of ram that is needed for a full server (my release alone, with all maps open simultaneously, I recommend using a system with NO less than 16 GB of ram, my true recommendation would be 32 GB)...

[mrainor]

I would like to install it separately gamed, but I can not understand in what config gmserver.conf GProviderClient

[343]

I would like to install it separately gamed, but I can not understand in what config gmserver.conf GProviderClient

Honestly, I am not sure off of the top of my head (by memory), but if you go through all each of the daemons config files it should be apparent what needs to be changed and where.

Each daemon has at least one config file. If you open them all simultaneously you will see 'how they all talk to each other' (that's what I mean by it should become pretty apparent after you look at them all, especially simultaneously)...

Then you can separate whatever you want, if you really wanted to you could run each and every 'service' and each and every 'map' on a separate physical machine

[Xavier Extreme]

343
I rarely ever post to the boards. I have been a member for quite a while. Used information from Szaer and you. (few others)
I've had a server running since I started as a member here.

I just want to say "Thank You".

As simple as your post is on this subject, It really opened things up for me.

I could not figure out this separation of servers out until reading your post right here. (had the 127.x.x.x blues )

God bless and thanks.

Xavier

[343]

343
I rarely ever post to the boards. I have been a member for quite a while. Used information from Szaer and you. (few others)
I've had a server running since I started as a member here.

I just want to say "Thank You".

As simple as your post is on this subject, It really opened things up for me.

I could not figure out this separation of servers out until reading your post right here. (had the 127.x.x.x blues )

God bless and thanks.

Xavier

Glad I could be of help. I once was a 'lurker' too, hope to see more posts from you

[343]

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