no WideFS-SPX-connection

[Skavsta]

Hello Pete!

After many years of TCPIP-connection from notebook to my Flightsim-PC I want to install a connection via SPX-protocol.

(OK - never change a running system, but this have non-FS-reasons!)

But I'm getting desperate - reading the PDF-manual 1000 times did not help.

On both PCs is WideFS 6.70 installed.

FS9

WINXP

..and: I get a normal WIN-network-connection via SPX between both PCs and in both directions!

This should exclude WIN-config-erros, or not?

Here comes the newest log-file:

********* WideClient Log [version 6.70] Class=FS98MAIN *********

Date (dmy): 21/11/07, Time 17:18:56.716: Client name is NOTEBOOK

190 Attempting to connect now

190 Trying IPX/SPX on Port 8002, Node 0.0.1024.50958.40348 ...

6179 Error on client pre-Connection Select() [Error=10051] Network is unreachable

6189 Ready to try connection again

7210 Attempting to connect now

7210 Trying IPX/SPX on Port 8002, Node 0.0.1024.50958.40348 ...

14761 ****** End of session performance summary ******

14761 Total time connected = 0 seconds

14761 Reception maximum: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

14761 Transmission maximum: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

14761 Max receive buffer = 0, Max send depth = 0, Send frames lost = 0

14761 ********* Log file closed (Buffers: MaxUsed 0, Alloc 0 Freed 0 Refused 0) *********

wideclient.ini:

[Config]

Port=8002

ServerNode=0.0.1024.50958.40348

ServerName="FLIGHT"

;ServerIPAddr=67.12.64.13

Window=0,0,1024,738

Visible=Yes

ButtonScanInterval=20

;ClassInstance=0

NetworkTiming=5,1

PollInterval=2000

ResponseTime=18

ApplicationDelay=0

TCPcoalesce=No

WaitForNewData=500

MaxSendQ=100

OnMaxSendQ=Log

NewSendScanTime=50

Priority=3,1,2

ActionKeys=Yes

PostKeys=no

MailslotTiming=2000,1000

Port2=9002

Protocol=SPX

ClassInstance=0

widerserver.ini:

[Config]

Port=8002

ServerName="FLIGHT"

AutoRestart=0

AutoUpdateTime=13

MaximumBlock=4096

NoStoppedRestarts=Yes

RestartTime=10

SendTimeout=15

ProtocolPreferred=SPX

AdvertiseService=1

Port2=9002

TCPcoalesce=No

; -----------------------------------------------

[user]

Log=Errors+

; ===============================================

[ClientNames]

1=NOTEBOOK

Any hints?

Thanks for Your answer!

Gunnar

Greetings from EDLW

[Pete Dowson]

Sorry for the delay in replying -- as mentioned in the Announcements above, my wife and I were off touring Argentina & Chile (by steam trains where possible) immediately after I returned to the UK from the AVSIM FanCon in Seattle.

After many years of TCPIP-connection from notebook to my Flightsim-PC I want to install a connection via SPX-protocol.

(OK - never change a running system, but this have non-FS-reasons!)

You can have both SPX and TCP installed, you know. Why are you wanting FS to use SPX? The IPX/SPX protocols are less and less well supported by Microsoft.

But I'm getting desperate - reading the PDF-manual 1000 times did not help.

On one of those 1,000 times, did you happen to notice this part:

On Windows XP there appears to be a little problem in identifying the correct ServerNode sometimes. Windows XP seems to add something called an IPXLoopbackAdapter, which has its own Node, and it is this which WideServer sometimes sees first. When this happens, WideServer tries to recognise it and you may get Log entries like this:

88218 ServerNode=13330.61389.0.0.512

88218 *** WARNING! *** This ServerNode is likely to be incorrect! Running IPXROUTE to get list ...

88218 IPXROUTE config >"G:\FS9\MODULES\WideServer.ipx"

90375The correct value will be one of these:

90375 ServerNode=0.0.3072.8310.62813 ("Local Area Connection")

90375 ServerNode=0.0.37578.21024.21313 ("NDISWANIPX")

In this case the first ServerNode found was, indeed, the one for the Loopback Adapter. The correct one in this case was the one for the Local Area Connection. (Please don’t ask me what an NDISWANIPX is, as I have no idea!)

In your case WideServer would not have run that program because the Node "looks" right (the 0.0. at the start). but maybe you could run it yourself and see what it says?

I say this because from this, in the log:

190 Trying IPX/SPX on Port 8002, Node 0.0.1024.50958.40348 ...

6179 Error on client pre-Connection Select() [Error=10051] Network is unreachable

it seems pretty conclusive that the 0.0.1024.50958.40348 node ID is incorrect. There's probably a router or another network card making that invisible outside the server PC.

On both PCs is WideFS 6.70 installed.

Ouch! 6.70 hasn't been supported for a long time now. Please always make sure you are using current versions.

Pete