Re: tlug: IPMASQ w/Flight Simulator 98

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 02:53:32PM +0900, Scott Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone already figured out how to get a masqueraded machine
> > > to be able join in a multi-player FS98 flight? 
> > 
> > The new Linux kernels (2.0.33 at least) have a transparent proxy
> > capability that should be able to handle it - ie, it tries to masquerade
> > everything by a general mechanism... [...]
> 
> It doesn't seem to work with FS98.  I suspect it is a protocol where
> communications on one port controls/open the real conversation on another.
> (It does work with the Squawkbox ATC add-on however.)
> 
> > PS - if you want to test it out, I'm a big FS98 fan myself... never tried
> > it online, though.. didn't see much point in that, unless there was some
> > kind of ATC program that interfaced with it.
> 
> There are a variety... including Squawkbox (ATC) and multiplayer flights
> (either through Microsoft's zone.com or a variety of public servers).

Where do you get 'squawkbox' ?

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