Quake 3 on a proxy server ?!?!?!

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rumplins
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Quake 3 on a proxy server ?!?!?!

Post by rumplins »

ok, my laptop is connecting to the internet...it's running CC Proxy server....i connect to the internet on my desktop through my laptop. i want to play Q3 on my desktop through the proxy. it's not like CC has a Quake3 port option, haha...please help
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Post by Foo »

CC Proxy is a HTTP/FTP proxy (and a handful of other protocols.

Quake 3 uses its own protocol. So unless you find a proxy that will route packets blindly, or find one specially built for Q3, you're out of luck.

The best way to connect more than one computer to a single internet connection is to purchase a ROUTER, or suitably configure a spare machine to act as one.

However. Q3 also supposedly has SOCKS support, which is some kind of rudimentary secure protocol for tunelling through a proxy. CC Proxy also supports SOCKS.

Getting SOCKS to work is an exercise I'll leave up to you though... it never worked for me way back when I tried it, and the impelementation in Q3 might be horribly broken for all I know (after all, who uses it?)

Good luck tho. And consider that investment in a router.... Makes life much easier.
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