2.0 and vista

[Darrell]

i have a server on my comp with xp pro works great..

also i have vista on this new comp here is the problem.... all the addresses im probably got something set wrong any ideas?


this is a screenshot so i dont mess anything up trying to explain lol

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...rCapture19.jpg

[mordero]

nope they are right, they are IPv6 addresses as well as the IPv4.

[Darrell]

ok but when i try and login all it does is restart the server?

[mordero]

yep, RunUO and vista dont quite go together yet. You could try disabling IPv6, but i dunno if that will work or not (I didnt try it cause i dont see that as a real solution, only a temporary one). David started a thread about it back in november if you want to look for it for more details.

[Darrell]

ok thank you very much

[mordero]

yep, sorry i couldnt be more help

[WeEzL]

Last I remember, you can't disable IPv6 in Vista... Microsoft would rather developers redevelop their software to support IPv6 than provide a way of disabling IPv6 in Vista. I also seem to remember that anything found on how to disable IPV6 only disabled parts of it and not the whole.

However, if I remember correctly, and if the theory is correct, the whole RunUO not playing well with Vista thing comes about when you do an upgrade to Vista from an existing XP install. When others tried installing Vista from scratch after reformatting first, there were no problems. Again, that's only if I remember correctly.

[Malaperth]

Originally Posted by WeEzL

However, if I remember correctly, and if the theory is correct, the whole RunUO not playing well with Vista thing comes about when you do an upgrade to Vista from an existing XP install. When others tried installing Vista from scratch after reformatting first, there were no problems. Again, that's only if I remember correctly.

That's what I read also, so at least there's two confirmations right or wrong

[Erica]

Originally Posted by Darrell

ok but when i try and login all it does is restart the server?

Hmm thats very odd tho i got Windows Vista Basic and log on ok and doesnt do no restart.

[mordero]

Originally Posted by WeEzL

However, if I remember correctly, and if the theory is correct, the whole RunUO not playing well with Vista thing comes about when you do an upgrade to Vista from an existing XP install. When others tried installing Vista from scratch after reformatting first, there were no problems. Again, that's only if I remember correctly.

I can prove that wrong, I have a fresh install of Vista Ultima and I cannot connect to my server, it just restarts when i try to connect to it. From what I can figure out, RunUO is using a deprecated property that is not available for IPv6 addresses, which is causing the crash.

[big_cat]

Yep I'm the same Vista Ultimate,

RunUO SVN downloaded today and compiled
and same problem

here is the crash report

Server Crash Report
===================

RunUO Version 2.0, Build 2604.36716
Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0
.NET Framework: 2.0.50727.312
Time: 17/02/2007 8:28:45 PM
Mobiles: 0
Items: 2
Exception:
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: The attempted operation is not supported for the type of object referenced
   at System.Net.IPAddress.get_Address()
   at Server.Network.AccountLoginAck..ctor(ServerInfo[] info)
   at Server.Network.PacketHandlers.AccountLogin_ReplyAck(NetState state)
   at Server.Network.PacketHandlers.AccountLogin(NetState state, PacketReader pvSrc)
   at Server.Network.MessagePump.HandleReceive(NetState ns)
   at Server.Network.MessagePump.Slice()
   at Server.Core.Main(String[] args)

Clients:
- Count: 1
+ 127.0.0.1: (account = xxxxx)

[mordero]

Yep same here, and I know why it is doing it too, just not quite how to fix it...

[noobie]

I think I did write a possible solution for that problem in the thread.

[Malaperth]

Originally Posted by noobie

I think I did write a possible solution for that problem in the thread.

Which thread where?

[noobie]

I gave a link in that thread..

click me

[mordero]

yeah I know and I can get the server to completely support IPv6 and IPv4 addresses (I think), but no way to test it because the server sends its ip address as an integer to the client multiple times, but you cannot cast an IPv6 address to an integer because it is too large (You could just send the IPv4 equivalent, but thats not a true solution). The reason we are getting this crash is because for IPv4 IPAddress in the .net framework, there is an Address property

IPAddress ipv4 = new IPAddress();
ipv4.Address //returns a long number of the address

The server then casts this as an int and writes it to the stream when the client is signing in. However, this Address property is deprecated and for IPv6 Addresses, this property was never available, so when the server tries to ue this property, the exception is thrown and the server crashes.

[noobie]

I really didnt understand the problem you are describing..

[mordero]

IPv46 IPAddress in the .net framework dont support a property that IPv4 IPAddress do support, and so when the server tries to find this property it crashes.

[noobie]

you do understand the changes I am talking about (the code snippet in the link) should be applied on the server, right ?

[mordero]

yes, I know, and Ive made the changes, but they do not help the crash. What happens is the server sends the IPv4 address to the client as an integer. A IPv6 address cannot be an integer and doesnt support the method that the server uses to find this integer, this is what causes the crash.

[Malaperth]

Basically, he needs a way to convert an IPv6 IP address to an IPv4 IP address reasonably easily.

[noobie]

you cannot convert IPv6 to IPv4.

I dont have runuo codes right now, so I cannot check the issue you are talking about.
but why server is sending its own ip to the client? the client is already well aware of that ip therefore it is connected to the server. are you sure about this?

anyway, since it is on the server side, it could be handled.


if you could paste the code you are talking about, I might help..

[Malaperth]

Well, there are several applications that claim you can convert IPv6 to IPv4...

[noobie]

I think those applications convert IPv4 to IPv6, not IPv6 to IPv4.

[mordero]

OK the solution!!!!!!!! (Part 1)
After much work, and much help from Zippy, Jeff, and Malaperth, we have come up with a solution!

***Removed unneeded mod**

You need a custom ServerList.cs in the distro scripts. You need to specify an IP address manually.
For me, it was:

public static readonly string Address = "192.168.1.65";

However, I am only accessing this server from within my router, so youll need to do whatever it is to make it accessable from outside and in.

See Part 2 for the rest of the solution (as only doing this step would allow connections from XP but not vista, i believe)