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Problem playing games using OpenVPN that use broadcast packets. Other games work, hosts can ping each other
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I'm running an OpenVPN server in bridged mode and clients can successfully connect, see shared folder and play LAN games that let you enter the LAN IP address. However I'm unable to play games like Sacred Underworld I believe because it sends out broadcast packets. The game doesn't even show up in …
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192.168.1.xx
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Fix for: Problem playing games using OpenVPN that use broadcast packets. Other games work, hosts can ping each other
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Regarding question 1: LAN games using (UDP) broadcasts typically choose the network interface which uses the lowest metric for its broadcast route (i.e. ip ). Most probably your default network interface (e.g. your NIC) has the lowest metric so the …
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