I am still job searching.
But, when taking breaks, I have been trying to get Gears of War to work on my network. Noting that there is a WDS point on the network, it might cause some problem. And it did.
Basically the two PC on hardware to router #1 can connect just fine, but if the connection is between a hardwired PC and a WDS-router-connected PC, the “connection to the host” will be lost. Why? I don’t know. I tried to figure out the problem by looking at wireshark caps, but both ends see the packets just fine. Yes, client PC can see the hosting PC’s game just fine, but it won’t connect.
Weird, isn’t it?
So then I look into the routers’ configurations. Nothing.
Then I turn to Hamachi. This, I should’ve done a long time ago, but it turns out to require very little “hack” to finally get the two PCs work together in GOW. So I am extremely happy that, while I wanted to solve the real problem, I decided that it’s not worth a headache over, and Hamachi works just fine for my cause.
Go, Hamachi!
