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Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 10/30/01 12:58 a.m.
In Response To: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling (mterlouw) : What are your thoughts on this...tunneling IPX through IP like in RFC1234 : (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1234.txt) to link up Xboxes across the : Internet. Interesting. Out of curiosity, though... how do you know the Xbox uses IPX at all? : One question is how would Halo react to the lag that would not normally be : there (there's no lag when using a direct connection to link the Xboxes). Well, sure there is. The same latency you'd see on a local area network applies; it's low, but not nonexistent. A bigger question is whether or not Halo's engine includes any client-side prediction. I don't believe any Bungie title ever has; Marathon didn't, and Oni had no netplay. I don't THINK Myth did, although I wouldn't claim certain knowledge. : I would just like to know what the actual Halo developers think about this. : Is it a valid possibility? I understand it would not be 'officially' : supported by Bungie in any way, but it's more likely than getting 16 : people, Xboxes, and TVs together for a LAN tournament. Even if it worked, it probably wouldn't work well-- I'm betting that since they knew Online play wouldn't be included in this version of Halo, any work they'd done on code to compensate for Internet latency (like client side prediction) probably isn't there. And I'm sure you read Matt's post about patches, which didn't QUITE say there wouldn't be any, but... well :)

Resoundingly Rampant

Message Index

To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	mterlouw	10/29/01 10:35 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	Paul Roberts	10/29/01 10:49 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	vector40	10/29/01 10:57 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	Narcogen	10/30/01 12:58 a.m.
Thanks for the intelligent responses guys :)	mterlouw	10/30/01 1:42 a.m.
Re: Thanks for the intelligent responses guys :)	FriendlyFire	10/30/01 9:37 a.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	modem	10/30/01 3:16 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	SpaceAceX	10/31/01 9:02 a.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	Louis Wu	10/31/01 9:12 a.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	SpaceAceX	10/31/01 6:17 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	vector40	10/31/01 7:10 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	vector40	10/31/01 7:09 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	Red Hot Ryan	10/31/01 9:21 p.m.
Re: To the developers...IPX through IP tunneling	Tsudico	11/1/01 10:24 a.m.
Kali	john beeler	11/1/01 9:01 p.m.