Lan Over IP Client User manual Based on version 0.

1 Summary I Description of the interface II Advanced configuration III Network configuration examples

I Description of the interface 1) Configuration panel The bottom part of the dialog box is the place where you configure the connectio n to the server. The first thing to do is to select the correct interface in the corresponding co mbo box. You must choose the interface where the LAN packets you want to forward are emitted. Other network parameters are available in the advanced dialog box, consult the next section for more details. The three other fields are the nick you will use on the server and the address a nd port to use to connect to the server. 2) Server room list The left side of the user interface shows the list of the users of the server in side the different rooms. This list is represented as a tree where the top-level nodes are the rooms and the leaves represent the users. At the connection, you join in the default room, then you can move to another room by double clicking o n the name of the room or by a right click on it to select the option. There are two types of rooms, the 'game' and 'chat' rooms. The 'chat' room, repr esented by a yellow balloon icon, is only used to talk to the other users and do not forward LAN packets. The 'game' room, represented by a grey keyboard icon, allow both chatting and LAN packet forwarding to the other users in the room. 3) Chat panel The top part shows the chat history, where chat and other messages are logged. T he text field below and the corresponding button allow the sending of messages t o the users in the room. 4) Language selection In the top-left corner, you can select the language of the interface with the co mbo box. The different language that appear in this box correspond to the transl ation files 'client_??.qm' where the question marks represent the language lette r code. These files have been installed with the client, but you can also add yo ur own written translation files (see the compilation note in the sources).

II Advanced configuration The 'advanced configuration' dialog box allows the setting of other network para meters. The 'local netmask' is normally set with the selection of the interface, but you can change it if it is incorrect or for other reasons. But be aware that this v alue is very important for packet forwarding and must be correctly set, so you s hould not have to modify this value.

The next option box specifies if the computer running the client is behind a rou ter to connect to the server. This option enables the 'Visible IP address' field where you set the IP address that will be used by the clients to connect to you (see the next chapter for examples). The hidden option is the capture filter used by the pcap library to listen on th e network interface and filter the packets to send. The filter syntax is the sam e as tcpdump or ethereal capture filters, refer to their manual pages or documen tations to set a correct syntax. The default value is 'dst 255.255.255.255', whi ch captures packets sent to the broadcast address 255.255.255.255. Moreover a bu ilt-in filter is added to restrict the capture to the emitted packets from the n etwork interface. Note that if a bad filter is set an error message will appear when connecting to the server, and no packet will be captured.

III Network configuration examples 1) Network with multiple subnets You are in a network with multiple subnets and the server is hosted by a compute r in one of these subnets. For example, you have the following network structure : 192.168.* / | \ / | \ / | \ 192.168.0.* 192.168.1.* 192.168.2.* / | | \ / | | \ 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.25 192.168.2.6 You are 192.168.0.1 and the server is for example hosted by 192.168.1.25. In thi s situation, each client of this network just have to connect to the server with out checking the 'behind a router' option. Your local netmask should be 255.255. 255.0. 2) Network behind a internet router You have an internet connection (or another network connection) and a personal n etwork behind this router. Server 212.18.36.15 | | Internet----------- client 212.67.5.12 | | 212.1.42.69 Router 192.168.0.254 / | \ / | \ 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 In this case, you have to check the 'behind a router' option and to set your 'vi sible IP address' (212.1.42.69 in the example). Moreover, you will need to forwa rd some ports (depending on the games and applications you want to use) from you

r router to the computer running the client in order to receive the direct conne ctions from the other clients.