i just stumbled across something which seems to support this -- it said that the kernel module is used when 2 masqueraded machines want to play an internet game at the same time.
pete begin Samuel Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:34:08PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > what exactly does this module do? > > > > other than opening up the quake ports and forwarding them to the proper > > internal LAN machine, what do you need a kernel module for in order to > > serve quake games? > > I don't think this is intended to help with serving. It seems to handle > the forwarding of Quake packets to clients behind a masq box, so that when > a client behind the masq box connects to a server, UDP packets from the > server are sent back to the client. > > Kernel 2.4 seems to do this automagically. I've never loaded any > Quake-specific kernel modules on my 2.4-based masq box, and I've never had > any problems with Quake (Q3|Quakeworld) playing. > > -- > Samuel Merritt > PGP key is at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~merritt/snmerritt.asc > Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/ -- Enron..safe legal abortion..civil liberty..repealing ICBM treaty..deficit.. What's worse? Screwing an intern or screwing an entire country? PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech