How to run games on Mikrotik routed network?

RouterOS General
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Let’s say we have two MT routers, both with 2 cards, one wireless and one standard.

if you use monospace fonts, here is the schematics…

(- . . . . . . -)
10.31.201.0/24 | | 10.31.202.0/24
|-----| |-----|
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| | | |
|-----| |-----|
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10.1.1.0/24 10.1.2.0/24

Network is routed and normal traffic goes from one subnet to other with no problem. Only problem are some games that use UDP… like Join Operations. Clients form one subnet can’t see others on other subnet. So if game server is on 10.1.1.0/24 then users from 10.1.2.0/24 can’t see the server.

Does someone know how to fix this?

2

UDP will traverse the network, however, it sounds like there is not a way to ANNOUCE the game via TCP..

3

Some games are lmited themseves to 192.168.0.255 or 10.0.0.255 or 192.?.?.255 … so may be the game’s fault. Running (selecting from game menu) an Internet server (that requeres internet conenction to the master cd-key validation server) is needed in most of these cases.

Try the program Hamachi wich creates a virtual network. Then all participants will have 192.168.0.255 addresses.

Or NATting the game server to the current subnet could also do the trick.

Also try some connect command from the game, to directly connect to an IP address of a server. Not clicking on it in the Servers window (because it’s not there obviously).